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git account locked preventing interaction through ssh

Created by: williamledoux

  1. Summary: After following the (awesome) 6.1 installation guide, user git was locked ( ! as password in the /etc/shadow file ) thus preventing interaction through ssh.

  2. Steps to reproduce: I assume installing gitlab on an elementary OS Luna (ubuntu based) distribution

  3. Expected behavior: interaction through ssh work, or some error appears in the checks

  4. Observed behavior: All checks are ok, but push through ssh will fail with a Permission denied (publickey) and /vat/log/auth.log saying User git not allowed because account is locked

  5. Relevant logs and/or screenshots:

  6. Output of checks

    System information
System:     elementary OS 0.2
Current User:   git
Using RVM:  no
Ruby Version:   2.0.0p247
Gem Version:    2.0.3
Bundler Version:1.3.5
Rake Version:   10.1.0

GitLab information
Version:    6.1.0
Revision:   b595503
Directory:  /home/git/gitlab
DB Adapter: mysql2
URL:        https://gitlab.CENSORED.fr
HTTP Clone URL: https://gitlab.CENSORED.fr/some-project.git
SSH Clone URL:  ssh://[email protected]:PORT/some-project.git
Using LDAP: no
Using Omniauth: no

GitLab Shell
Version:    1.7.1
Repositories:   /home/git/repositories/
Hooks:      /home/git/gitlab-shell/hooks/
Git:        /usr/bin/git

And

    Checking Environment ...

    Git configured for git user? ... yes
    Has python2? ... yes
    python2 is supported version? ... yes

    Checking Environment ... Finished

    Checking GitLab Shell ...

    GitLab Shell version >= 1.7.1 ? ... OK (1.7.1)
    Repo base directory exists? ... yes
    Repo base directory is a symlink? ... no
    Repo base owned by git:git? ... yes
    Repo base access is drwxrws---? ... yes
    update hook up-to-date? ... yes
    update hooks in repos are links: ... 
    IMA / AAE ... ok

    Checking GitLab Shell ... Finished

    Checking Sidekiq ...

    Running? ... yes

    Checking Sidekiq ... Finished

    Checking GitLab ...

    Database config exists? ... yes
    Database is SQLite ... no
    All migrations up? ... yes
    GitLab config exists? ... yes
    GitLab config outdated? ... no
    Log directory writable? ... yes
    Tmp directory writable? ... yes
    Init script exists? ... yes
    Init script up-to-date? ... yes
    projects have namespace: ... 
    IMA / AAE ... yes
    Projects have satellites? ... 
    IMA / AAE ... yes
    Redis version >= 2.0.0? ... yes
    Your git bin path is "/usr/bin/git"
    Git version >= 1.7.10 ? ... yes (1.8.4)

    Checking GitLab ... Finished

Possible fixes:

  • replace password by * (disabled) instead of ! (locked) in /etc/shadow
  • detect it and show it in the post installation gitlab checks