From: Bill Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: git wants a password to portage sync
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2017 05:53:37 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3f822d43-9804-38ba-a7f9-0cdfa760d61e@iinet.net.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <p06654$iro$1@blaine.gmane.org>
On 05/12/17 21:15, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 05/12/17 12:40, Bill Kenworthy wrote:
>> I use a central machine that all other gentoo machines pull portage
>> updates from using emerge set up for git.
>>
>> Some 10+ physical and virtual machines work fine.
>>
>> A newly installed machine wants a git password to do the git pull where
>> as no other machine does. Tried setting up keys for it on the remote
>> machine (user portage which is who git pulls come from) and ssh login
>> works fine, git demands a password.
>>
>> Any hints because its got me beat!
>
> I suspect the keys on the other machines are not password protected, but
> the key on that machine is and Git asks you for it.
>
>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-05 21:53 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 [this message]
2017-12-05 22:35 ` Ian Zimmerman
2017-12-05 22:43 ` Alan McKinnon
2017-12-06 10:51 ` Bill Kenworthy
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