Re: SSH connection problem (and a typo)

On Fri, Aug 27, 2021 at 9:39 AM Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se> wrote:
>
> > 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.

This was definitely not clear in the instructions, so I've updated
them with a sentence explaining this.

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