Re: Here we go again! 2FA vs Gitlab instructions.

Hi

thanks for the help.

No.  I am not using PuTTY as terminal on W11.

I was able to upload the new key to Gitlab, but it still does not work.

Pageant seems to be running, and Sourcetree gives me a very suspicious
message.

git -c diff.mnemonicprefix=false -c core.quotepath=false
--no-optional-locks push -v --tags --set-upstream origin master:master
Pushing to common-lisp.net:mantoniotti/cl-plot.git
*Server refused public-key signature despite accepting key!*
FATAL ERROR: Network error: Software caused connection abort
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

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

I am at a loss.  This should not be so difficult.

On Sun, Mar 27, 2022 at 5:16 PM Jon Boone <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Marco!
>
> I know this can all be very frustrating, but hang in there!
>
> The two public keys you have from pageant are in PEM (aka base64)
> format.  That format is no longer accepted by Github/Gitlab, which require
> the RFC4716 format instead.
>
> I am wondering if you are using PuTTY as your terminal client on Windows
> 11.  If so, you might find this particular section of documentation for
> working with PuTTY from Oracle to be helpful:
> https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/paas/goldengate-cloud/tutorial-change-private-key-format/#(Optional)ConvertppkformattoOpenSSH
>
> In particular, by exporting the key from the PPK format PuTTY uses to the
> OpenSSH format, you can then import the OpenSSH format into both GitHub and
> GitLab.
>
> — jb
> On Mar 27, 2022, 10:41 -0400, Marco Antoniotti <[email protected]>,
> wrote:
>
> Oh well. I have a ssh-agent running.  I am using Git Bash on a W11 machine.
>
> $ ssh-add
> Could not open a connection to your authentication agent.
>
> BTW.  I am also trying to get SourceTree to work.  I have Pageant running
> with my keys loaded.
>
> I noticed that I do not have my most recent public key loaded on Gitlab
> (but it has two old ones that *shoould* still work).  But the site does not
> understand (and *I do not fuc*ing understand*) the format in which the
> key should be pasted in there.
>
> I generated the key with Pageant and the file contains what you see in the
> screenshots.
>
> I apologize for the tone, but I really really believe that both Github and
> Gitlab have gone way off on a tangent with all of this.  Especially because
> they have not gone back to git to improve the messaging.
>
> All the best
>
> Marco
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 27, 2022 at 4:22 PM Jon Boone <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> If you’re using a bash/zsh environment, use ‘ssh-add’ to load your
>> private keys into the ssh agent before you interact with the remote
>> repository.
>>
>> — jb
>> On Mar 27, 2022, 10:20 -0400, Marco Antoniotti <
>> [email protected]>, wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> I am trying to import a repo in Gitlab.  I just created the repo using
>> the web interface (CL-PLOT).
>> This is what the instructions on the site say.
>>
>> cd existing_repo
>> git remote rename origin old-origin
>> git remote add origin [email protected]:mantoniotti/cl-plot.gitgit push -u origin --all
>> git push -u origin --tags
>>
>>
>> Once I try git push I get the dreaded message.
>>
>> $ git push -u origin --all
>> [email protected]: Permission denied (publickey).
>> fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
>>
>> Please make sure you have the correct access rights
>> and the repository exists.
>>
>> Why?  I.e., why doesn't git understand the 2FA I set up a long time ago?
>> Why I cannot get my SSH keys to work?  How can I change the remote spec in
>> order not to have to go through this every other month?
>>
>> Thank you
>>
>> All the best
>>
>> Marco
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>
> --
> Marco Antoniotti, Professor                           tel. +39 - 02 64 48
> 79 01
> DISCo, Università Milano Bicocca U14 2043   http://dcb.disco.unimib.it
> Viale Sarca 336
> I-20126 Milan (MI) ITALY
>
>

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Viale Sarca 336
I-20126 Milan (MI) ITALY