无法在同一个远程ubuntu服务器上克隆gitolite的git repo

Question

I have gitolite on the remote ubuntu 16 server that keeps also production environment (nginx server and release version of web projects).

Gitolite keeps common access project repository. Development process is on the local machines. A lot of successful pushes to gitolite project repository.

Now i'm going to deploy (clone) git project from gitolite to /var/www/project directory on the same remote ubuntu server.

To do that I've:

1. connected to the server via ssh under my regular user with sudo permission (not git user)
2. generated rsa.pub ssh-keygen -t rsa
3. copied rsa.pub to the keydir on the local machine with gitolite admin permissions as git-serveruser.pub

4. changed gitolite.conf

   repo repositoryname RW+ = git-admin git-serveruser

5. commited and pushed changes to the server

Then i've tried to clone repository with following ssh command:

git clone git@localhost:repositoryname

Unfortunately i've got this permission error:

Cloning into 'repositoryname'...
Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.

There is default testing repository with @all +RW permissions. So've tried this one

git clone git@localhost:testing

and got the same error...

Is't possible to clone repository from gitolite on the same remote machine? What i'm doing wrong? How can i solve this problem?

Answer 1

Just to be sure, try with

GIT_SSH_COMMAND='ssh -i /full/path/to/.ssh/id_rsa' git clone git@localhost:repositoryname

If it fails, double check the ssh troubleshooting , in particular check that your public key does end up in ~git/.ssh/authorized_keys