When I go to set up git to run with ssh, I get the following error:
file "usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gitosis-0.2-py2.5.egg/gitosis/init.py",
line 35, in ssh_extract_user
_, user = pubkey.rsplit(None, 1)
ValueError: need more than 1 value to unpack
the command I typed:
sudo -H -u git gitosis-init < /home/sean/.ssh/pubkey.pub
I am running the ubuntu long release server 8.04
I have fixed this by modifying generated public key file, at the end it has user name appended,remove special characters and register public key with gitosis.
If public key is
ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2E ....... ..... .....== [email protected]
update this as
ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2E ....... ..... .....== [email protected]
Further refer https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470359
This should be related to your ssh key format, as illustrated by this thread.
I used
PuttyGenon Windows to generate my public key (SSH2 RSA 1024) and save it locally, and then I uploaded it to/tmp/id_rsa.pubusingpscp, but then when I ran
sudo -H -u git gitosis-init < /tmp/id_rsa.pub
I kept getting errors, eg:
gitosis.init.InsecureSSHKeyUsername: Username contains not allowed characters: ‘—‘
or:
gitosis.init.InsecureSSHKeyUsername: Username contains not allowed characters:’”rsa-key-20081202”’
or (after I got rid of everything in the file but the key itself):
ValueError: need more than 1 value to unpack
I figured that
PuttyGenhad generated anSSH2public key file in a slightly different format, and ‘git gitosis-init’ wanted a user name at the beginning, so I went here:
http://www.rfc-archive.org/getrfc.php?rfc=4716
and saw that I could keep the “
—BEGIN…” and “—END” parts, and replace the “comment: ...” line (generated by PuttyGen) with a line reading:
subject: git
And it worked! I got the output:
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/git/repositories/gitosis-admin.git/
Reinitialized existing Git repository in /home/git/repositories/gitosis-admin.git/
this key worked for me puttygen on windows, ssh-2-rsa, 1024
ssh-rsa [email protected]
AAAAB3N-lksdfwejekjvcjsndgefjhbdfzuegjksafdiuewhdskajdfeiudhksj
...
...
GncwFuk=
