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From: Ian Zimmerman <itz@very.loosely.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: git wants a password to portage sync
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2017 14:35:36 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171205223536.zt2dcyywxagmriq6@matica.foolinux.mooo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3f822d43-9804-38ba-a7f9-0cdfa760d61e@iinet.net.au>

On 2017-12-06 05:53, Bill Kenworthy wrote:

> No, all machines are set up as keyless ssh - git has never needed it
> there.  In frustration I created keys and set portage up as a keyless
> ssh account as well, no change.

ssh messages are sometimes misleading.  For instance, ssh would say
something like "pubkey authentication failed" when in fact I prohibited
root logins on the server.

I'd try connecting with bare ssh as the user in question, with maximum
verbosity turned on (-vvv).

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-12-05 22:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-05 10:40 [gentoo-user] git wants a password to portage sync Bill Kenworthy
2017-12-05 13:15 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2017-12-05 21:53   ` Bill Kenworthy
2017-12-05 22:35     ` Ian Zimmerman [this message]
2017-12-05 22:43       ` Alan McKinnon
2017-12-06 10:51         ` Bill Kenworthy

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