Gitlab prompts for password while push for git user

Question

I installed gitlab on my servers at linode. All services of gitlab are working fantastic. I am able to login, create users, repos etc. But the problem I am facing is when I

Answer 1

On systems with SELinux enabled you should not disable SELinux as suggested in some answers.

To get along with the SELinux restrictions (iff they are the reason for the password prompt; check your /var/log/audit/audit.log ) change the security context for gitlab:

chcon -t user_home_dir_t /var/opt/gitlab/
chcon -t ssh_home_t /var/opt/gitlab/.ssh/
chcon -t ssh_home_t /var/opt/gitlab/.ssh/authorized_keys

(as suggested at the gitlab group)

Answer 2

To properly fix the selinux issues, use the following. Note that chcon is only temporary and will not survive a relabel or restorecon, so you should use semanage instead.

semanage fcontext -a -t user_home_dir_t "/var/opt/gitlab(/.*)?"
semanage fcontext -a -t ssh_home_t "/var/opt/gitlab/.ssh(/.*)?"
restorecon -rv /var/opt/gitlab

Answer 3

In my case, I had to add the remote repository with ssh as

git remote add gitlab ssh://git@your.project:222/git/repo_name.git 

which made git not request me the password again. Note the use of ssh:// and port=222.

Answer 4

I had a similar problem when I set the remote repository with the HTTP URL.

I changed it to use the SSH URL, and it worked fine:

git remote set-url gitlab git@gitlab.devekko.net:niccolox/cirm-website.git

Answer 5

I had the same problem but it was because my server only accept ssh login from users of "sshusers".

On /etc/ssh/sshd_config I had the following line :

AllowGroups sshusers

In order to fix this issue, I added git to sshusers group:

$ sudo adduser git sshusers 

And then it's working.

Answer 6

I tried many options but no success. The only that resolved for me was osxkeychain helper

See the tutorial here.

The tutorial is from github, but works great for gitlab too.