git clone without asking for users password

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sebastian_t picture sebastian_t · Dec 5, 2015 · Viewed 22.4k times · Source

I want to create public git repository on my dedicated server for anyone to clone but it keeps asking me for password for git user.

I have created user named git without password. Used:

passwd -d git

Unfortunately every time I try to do:

git clone git@myhost:myrepo.git

I'm getting asked for password.

I have tried setting in sshd_config

Match user git 
        PermitEmptyPasswords yes 
        PasswordAuthentication yes

With either yes and no for PasswordAuthentication but still no use.

Answer

sebastian_t picture sebastian_t · Dec 6, 2015

It seems doing it over ssh is impossible. It will always ask for password unless you copy your public key.

The solution is to use git daemon and clone repository over git:// protocol

git clone git://hostname/directory

For more information about it I suggest git help daemon

Tip: Remember you need to give it read privileges. From my experience setting others: chmod -R o+r project.git won't work for some reason. You have to permit git access via either author or group. You can disallow write access to your repo on daemon level ( default behaviour ).

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