[Xastir] It appears the GIT repro has been locked down

Tom Russo russo at bogodyn.org
Mon Apr 30 17:17:54 PDT 2018


On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 04:53:48PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <davidf4 at mindspring.com> flavor, containing:
> git clone https://github.com/Xasitr/Xastir
                               ^^^^^^

Theeeeeree's yer praaahblum.

Try spelling it "Xastir" in this spot.

I cut/pasted your clone line and got the same request for password.  Spell
it right, no uid/pass required.

> Cloning into 'Xastir'...
> Username for 'https://github.com': (cursor..I hit enter)
> Password for 'https://github.com': (cursor..I hit enter)
> fatal: Authentication failed for 'https://github.com/Xastir/Xastir/'
> 
> Same thing happens if I use https://www........
> 
> Until today's attempt, it always jumped from the "Cloning" line to 
> pulling down files...and this is a fresh Gentoo install so there's no 
> GIT config files at all..never had to use them to just pull a copy down...
> 
> 
> On 4/30/2018 4:30 PM, Tom Russo wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 04:27:18PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <davidf4 at mindspring.com> flavor, containing:
> >> I needed a mental distraction so I installed Gentoo on an old
> >> Thinkpad...and when I get to the 'git clone' command, it's asking for a
> >> Username and Password.?? Never has before this..
> >>
> >> So I'm guessing someone locked down the Xastir repro...
> > Nope.  It is not locked down.
> >
> > What URL did you use to clone?  There's an ssh and an https url you can
> > use, and if you use the ssh one you need to set up github with an ssh public
> > key.
> >
> > The https clone url (https://github.com/Xastir/Xastir.git) should not
> > prompt for a user id and password.
> >
> > This will also happen if you leave off the "https://", because github will
> > assume ssh://.
> >
> >
> 
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