Re: SSH connection problem (and a typo)

> On 27 Aug 2021, at 09:37, Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota(dot)ntt(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> At Fri, 27 Aug 2021 09:13:29 +0200, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se> wrote in
>>> On 27 Aug 2021, at 04:31, Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota(dot)ntt(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>>
>>> Is there anything I can check or do to overcome this situation?
>>
>> I don’t think there is. Quoting Magnus from your thread on -hackers:
>>
>> "ssh based access only works for repositories where you have explicit
>> permissions, it does not support anonymous access -- that has to be over
>> https (recommended) or git.
>>
>> And specifically, the postgresql.git repo mirror only allows anonymous
>> access."
>>
>> So the way I read it is that there is nothing wrong with your setup, but the
>> repository you are attempting to clone does not allow setting the access
>> control needed for it to work. postgresql.git only allows http or git, ssh
>> isn’t allowed as it only allows anonymous access.
>
> Ok. Thanks for clarification. I thought that ssh reading access to
> git.postgresql.org is allowed to all who have a community account.

It is, but only for repositories where you have explicitly been granted read
access, it’s not on by default for all repositories.

> So if I fail to access an repository that I suppose I have an access,
> I understand that that means that I should ask the owner of the
> repository.

Correct.

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