password problem with git clone gitosis@host:gitosis-admin.git

Question

I\'m confronted with some problems when trying to configure gitosis on Ubuntu. When i run this command

git clone gitosis@host:gitosis-admin.git

Answer 1

I had a similar problem: I could push from a laptop but not from a linux box.

Looking at the logs on the server, I saw:

Public key b3:f3:... from  blacklisted (see ssh-vulnkey(1))

The problem comes from old versions of openssl generating bad (not random enough) keys on my old linux box. Since I cannot upgrade (embedded development), I generated both the public and private keys on another machine and copied them to the linux box. Once the new public key was in the "keydir" from gitosis-admin, everything worked fine.