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Centos server install Git and Gitolite After, Unable to connect via SSH

sh-3.2# ssh 115.2x.x.x
PTY allocation request failed on channel 0
bash: /root/bin/gitolite-shell: No such file or directory
Connection to 115.2x.x.x closed.

"/etc/passwd" On Server:

root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash

Solution

  • If it possible gitolite was installed with the root account.
    The gitolite doc mentions:

    When you install gitolite in ssh mode, you pick one specific user on the Unix system to be the "hosting user".
    This is the user whose name goes into the repo URLs your users will be cloning, for example ssh://git@server/repo, or the simpler form git@server:repo.

    Even in a local installation (directly on the server), that setup should be done as a 'git' account, not as root.