Setup Git Remote SSH (git-upload-pack / git-receive-pack)

Question

I have a server with SSH access and I want to place a Git origin repo there. I just created a --bare --shared repo locally and copied it to the server per SCP. Now I wanted

Answer 1

You shouldn't need to enter a password when establishing an ssh connection:
If your public key is published on ~/.ssh/authorized_keys, this should be enough.

You might need a password if your private key is protected by a passphrase (in which case, see "ssh daemon asks for a password", you could need an ssh-agent).

Otherwise, see "Unable to Git-push master to Github" for more ssh debugging tips, including:

• ssh -vvvT ssh://USERNAME@HOST (make sure HOME is defined, especially if you are on Windows: see "Heroku push master ssh problem")
• check the log of the sshd on the server (for instance in /var/log/secure, but it can vary depending on the Os)

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Openssh is a safer choice (and packaged with mysysgit), but it still requires that you define your %HOME% properly.

Again, ssh -vvvT will help here.

First of all: I'm not enabled to install git on the server.
Is it possible to make "git-upload-pack" and "git-receive-pack" available without installing git?

No, it isn't possible.

git must be installed, and in the path of sshd (the ssh daemon running on the server).

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The OP andineupert concludes in the comments:

Due to the need to install git on the server (which I couldn't) I had to integrate the remote repo-dir as a local dir per SSH/SFTP.
Now everything's working.

Answer 2

You need the binaries git-upload-pack & git-receive-pack in the path on the remote while an ssh is being executed.

If not configure them for every remote link in your repository like this

git config remote.origin.uploadpack /somepath/git/git-upload-pack
git config remote.origin.receivepack /somepath/git/git-receive-pack

where origin is the remote.