gitolite FATAL: R any gitolite-admin git DENIED by fallthru

Question

.ssh/config

host git-server

user git

hostname 127.0.0.1

identityfile ~/.ssh/git

port 6827

run: git ls-remote git-server:gitolite-admin.git

error: FATAL: R any gitolite-admin git DENIED by fallthru (or you mis-spelled the reponame) fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights

Answer 1

Simply try first ssh git@host info

[That will] tells you what version of gitolite and git are on the server, and what repositories you have access to.

That is better than ssh to the server, which a regular user could not do anyway, because their SSH public key is associated to a gitolite "force command": they cannot get an interactive session.

Note that for accessing the gitolite-admin.git main configuration repository, you need to use the key that you had when doing the gitolite installation