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Authentication as generic user git failed, public key not found

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Issue

Impacted version: 4.1.0

Deployment mode: I use your docker image and just upgraded to the latest version over 3.14 as recommended.

Problem description: I can not clone/push/pull repositories over the new generic git user. It says: 16:41:40.367 [sshd-SshServer[124ac145]-nio2-thread-3] INFO o.a.s.s.session.ServerSessionImpl - Server session created from /XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:51456 16:41:40.621 [sshd-SshServer[124ac145]-nio2-thread-4] INFO g.core.ssh.PublicKeyAuthenticator - authentication as generic user git failed, public key is ambiguous 16:41:40.663 [sshd-SshServer[124ac145]-nio2-thread-5] INFO g.core.ssh.PublicKeyAuthenticator - authentication as generic user git failed, public key not found 16:41:40.705 [sshd-SshServer[124ac145]-nio2-thread-1] I NFO g.core.ssh.PublicKeyAuthenticator - authentication as generic user git failed, public key not found 16:41:40.748 [sshd-SshServer[124ac145]-nio2-thread-2] INFO g.core.ssh.PublicKeyAuthenticator - authentication as generic user git failed, public key not found

Can not see where i can set the public key for user “git”

Issue Analytics

  • State:closed
  • Created 7 years ago
  • Comments:5 (3 by maintainers)

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1reaction
nazokingcommented, Aug 2, 2016

anyone can create user called ‘git’ from user admin page. we should add validate on creating user name git.

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ritschwummcommented, Jul 27, 2016

is it still possible to create a user named “git”? it shouldn’t, imho…

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