27 October 2014, 13:06

I tried many times, created new accounts on Gerrit, Gitoriuos, changed keys many times, searched for hours but keep getting stuck here:

dirk@dirk-System-Product-Name:/var/www/mahara$ scp -p -P 29418 [email protected]:hooks/commit-msg .git/hooks/
Agent admitted failure to sign using the key.
Permission denied (publickey).

Any help is appreciated.

27 October 2014, 16:42

Hi Dirk,

I've not experienced that error before but this might help you: https://help.github.com/articles/error-agent-admitted-failure-to-sign/

It sounds like you are experiencing the same sort of problem

Cheers

Robert

29 October 2014, 15:29

Hi Dirk,

Another thing you can do to test whether your setup is correct, is this:

ssh reviews.mahara.org -p 22418

If your SSH is set up correctly, you should get this response:

  ****    Welcome to Gerrit Code Review    ****

  Hi Aaron Wells, you have successfully connected over SSH.

  Unfortunately, interactive shells are disabled.
  To clone a hosted Git repository, use:

  git clone ssh://[email protected]:29418/REPOSITORY_NAME.git

Connection to reviews.mahara.org closed.

If it doesn't work, you can add the "-v" tag to get verbose output from SSH, which may give a clearer indication of where it's failing. And you can expand that to "-vv" and "-vvv" to get even more verbosity!

But I think that sshagent thing that Robert linked to is probably the problem. I vaguely recall having to fix something relating to that on my laptop a while back when I was having git problems.

Cheers,

Aaron

30 October 2014, 15:18

Thanks Robert and Aaron,

I can successfully connect  to github using

ssh -T [email protected]

as described here: https://help.github.com/articles/generating-ssh-keys/

When I run

ssh reviews.mahara.org -p 22418

I get 'ssh: connect to host reviews.mahara.org port 22418: Connection timed out'


I'll figure it out one of these days. Thanks again.

31 October 2014, 14:53

Sorry, that's a typo! It should be 29418, not 22418.

The same port number you see in the git commands that gerrit generates, eg: git fetch ssh://[email protected]:29418/mahara refs/changes/74/3874/3 && git checkout FETCH_HEAD

Cheers,

Aaron