I\'ve got a server with Gitolite installed to host my repos I created a new repo yesterday and today when I tried to push more commits to the server I am getting:
As seen in the comments, any additional repo has an issue during its creation (ie when pushing back the gitolite-admin
repo with the gitolite.conf
file declaring a new repo)
I didn't notice this before but when I create a new repo I'm getting the following error:
remote: line 1 too long: command="/home/git/gitolite/src/gitolite...
remote: FATAL: fingerprinting failed for /tmp/Cdug9Itivq
But it's creating the repo in
/home/git/repositories
This operation takes place in a post-compilation trigger called ssh-authkeys:
sub fp_file {
return $selinux++ if $selinux; # return a unique "fingerprint" to prevent noise
my $f = shift;
my $fp = `ssh-keygen -l -f '$f'`;
chomp($fp);
_die "fingerprinting failed for '$f'" unless $fp =~ /([0-9a-f][0-9a-f](:[0-9a-f][0-9a-f])+)/;
$fp = $1;
return $fp;
}
That means ssh-keygen -l -f <path_to_public_key.pub>
doesn't follow the right pattern, as shown in "self service key management".
Make sure that your key is generated like:
ssh-keygen -t rsa -f "${H}/.ssh/git" -C "Gitolite Admin access (not interactive)" -q -P ""
Update April 2015:
As mentioned by starfry in "Gitolite - remote: FATAL: fingerprinting failed for 'keydir/'":
There was a change to the key fingerprint format in OpenSSH at version 6.8:
Add
FingerprintHash
option tossh(1)
andsshd(8)
, and equivalent command-line flags to the other tools to control algorithm used for key fingerprints. The default changes from MD5 to SHA256 and format from hex to base64.Fingerprints now have the hash algorithm prepended.
An example of the new format:
SHA256:mVPwvezndPv/ARoIadVY98vAC0g+P/5633yTC4d/wXE
Please note that visual host keys will also be different.
The latest git checkout of gitolite is aware, since 18th March '15, of this new format.