Why I can't add new repositories using gitosis?

Question

I set up gitosis but even when i can clone, pull and push to the gitosis-admin repo, i can\'t create new ones.

According to every doc i read, to create a new repo one ha

Answer 1

Hello i've had exactly the same problem just today.

I checked by

$ ssh git@yourserver echo if you see this, it is not gitosis

and found out that gitosis was not servicing ssh sessions.

I couldnt get why.

As a solution a deleted git user (that i used for gitosis purposes) with its home folder and recreated it from scratch.

And it helped.

README.rst from gitosis.git says

".. warning::

    For now, ``gitosis`` uses the ``HOME`` environment variable to
    locate where to write its files. If you use ``sudo -u``
    without ``-H``, ``sudo`` will leave the old value of ``HOME``
    in place, and this will cause trouble. There will be a
    workaround for that later on, but for now, always remember to
    use ``-H`` if you're sudoing to the account.

You should always edit the configuration file via git. The file symlinked to ~/.gitosis.conf on the server will be overwritten when pushing changes to the gitosis-admin.git repository. " i suppose it might be the cause..