Permission denied when attempting to clone from fresh Gerrit site.

[Khai Do]

Hello.  I just built gerrit from master created a gerrit site setup a user account but was not able to git clone a repo.  I get a Permission denied (publickey) error.  I have done this many times before without problems, but today it's not working.  Has anyone else seen this?

steps to repro:

1. built gerrit from master

2. java -jar buck-out/gen/gerrit.war init --no-auto-start --debug --batch -d gerrit_testsite

3. changed 'auth' in gerrit.config to use 'type = DEVELOPMENT_BECOME_ANY_ACCOUNT'

4. gerrit_testsite/bin/gerrit.sh start

5. goto http://localhost:8080 to setup a new account. Entered name, email, username, ssh-key

6. clone the repo..

~/temp$ git clone ssh://localhost:29418/All-Projects

Cloning into 'All-Projects'...

The authenticity of host '[localhost]:29418 ([::1]:29418)' can't be established.

RSA key fingerprint is f5:65:65:0d:22:43:ba:8d:38:a6:8e:65:9d:40:5d:c7.

Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes

Warning: Permanently added '[localhost]:29418' (RSA) to the list of known hosts.

Permission denied (publickey).

fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights

and the repository exists.

[Khai Do]

The access denied error goes away if the gerrit account I create in step #5 matches my local user account.  What I typically do is create a test account on gerrit (which isn't the same as my local account) then I add a '[user]' section (name and email) to my .gitconfig and gerrit.config files to specify the test account.  Doing that used to allow me to clone/push with the test account, but that no longer works.  Anybody know why?  I'm not sure if new behavior is by design or if it's a bug.

[Jonathan Nieder]

For authentication, what matters is the username in the ssh://username@host URL, not the user identity in ~/.gitconfig.

On Wed Jun 25 2014 at 10:55:39 AM, Khai Do <zaro...@gmail.com> wrote:

The access denied error goes away if the gerrit account I create in step #5 matches my local user account.  What I typically do is create a test account on gerrit (which isn't the same as my local account) then I add a '[user]' section (name and email) to my .gitconfig and gerrit.config files to specify the test account.  Doing that used to allow me to clone/push with the test account, but that no longer works.  Anybody know why?  I'm not sure if new behavior is by design or if it's a bug.

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[Khai Do]

Duhh! you are right. I forgot to specify the test account's username in ssh protocal.  Thanks!