I have just installed GitLab I created a project called project-x I have created few users and assigned it to the project Now I tried to clone git clone git 192 168 0 108 project-x git It prompted me for a password What password should I use

My problem was that I had a DNS entry for gitlab example com to point to my load balancer So when I tried command ssh git gitlab example com I was really connecting to the wrong machine I made an entry in my ssh config file Host gitlab example com Hostname 192 168 1 50 That wasted a lot of time

For my case it turns out the gitlab was runnign in docker and has port mapping 4022 22 Thus I have to edit ssh config to specify the port via Port 4022 e g Host gitlab-local Hostname 192 168 1 101 User git Port 4022 IdentityFile ssh id rsa pub LogLevel DEBUG3

Had the same problem in Windows 10 don t know if this is relevant Had everything set up correctly the ssh -vT git myserver command succeeded but Gitlab still asked for my password Removing then re-creating the key in Gitlab was the trick for me

After adding the new SSH Key in GitLab check if you have git group included in SSHD AllowGroups for Debian etc ssh sshd config If not add it and restart sshd systemctl restart ssh Test it with ssh -vT git 192 168 8 2 as suggested above

The Solution from https github com gitlabhq gitlab-shell issues 46 worked for me By setting the permissions chmod 700 home git ssh chmod 600 home git ssh authorized keys password prompt disappears

Not strictly related to the current scenario Sometimes when you are prompted for password it is because you added the wrong origin format HTTPS instead of SSH HTTP S protocol is commonly used for public repos with strong username pass SSH authentication is more common for internal projects where you can authenticate with a ssh-key-file and simple pass-phrase GitLab users are more likely to use the SSH protocol View your remote info with git remote -v If you see HTTP S address this is the command to change it to SSH git remote set-url origin git gitlab my domain com example-project git

On Windows 10 using the terminal under VS Code I got a prompt for git gitlab s password when trying to git push -u origin --all I had established my ssh credentials in windows and in gitlab but I had used Windows 10 bash key-gen to do so The solution then was to invoke bash in VS code terminal and then issue the command again bash git push -u origin --all It succeeded To avoid having to use bash git manually I then put a symlink between the windows ssh id rsa and the bash shell ssh id rsa C Users bruce ssh gt mklink id rsa C Users bruce AppData Local lxss home bruce ssh id rsa VS Code Git menu actions push pull etc now worked with gitlab

On my Windows 10 machine it was because the SSH GIT environment variable wasn t set to use the putty plink I had installed on my machine

I had the right public private key but seemed like it didn t work anyway got same errors prompting for the git-user password After a computer-restart it worked though

You may usually if you have multiple keys setup via ssh on your system my device is running Windows 10 you will encounter this issue the fix is to Precondition Setup up your SSH Keys as indicated by GitLab open c Users ssh config file with Notepad or your favourite editor paste the following inside it Host IdentityFile ssh Please note there is a space before the second line very important to avoid this solution not working

[git] GitLab git user password

My problem was that I had a DNS entry for gitlab.example.com to point to my load balancer. So when I tried command ssh [email protected] I was really connecting to the wrong machine.

I made an entry in my ~/.ssh/config file:

Host gitlab.example.com
    Hostname 192.168.1.50

That wasted a lot of time...

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