From: Stefan Sperling <stsp@stsp.name>
Subject: Re: Two repos refuse being cloned by anonymous
To: Sylvain Saboua <sylvain@saboua.me>
Cc: Gameoftrees <gameoftrees@openbsd.org>
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2026 18:28:26 +0200

On Tue, Sep 22, 2026 at 04:05:28PM +0200, Sylvain Saboua wrote:
> I cannot for the life of me understand what my be wrongly configured.
> 
> My gotwebd(8) server is up on my new machine at https://got.saboua.xyz/
> Every repo is displayed and accessible as should be.
> I can clone every repo from remote (using my public hostname) with
> my own user account. But the first two repos (belote, bkup) refuse
> to be cloned when using an anonymous account. Every other repo can
> be cloned fine remotely or locally with either account.
> 
> As far as I can remember every repo was set up the same.
> What could I have done wrong ?

Please add -v -v to gotd_flags and check what gets logged when you
try the clone operations which fail.

> 
> I also just ran reset_git:
>         chown -R _gotd:_gotd /home/git ;
>         chmod -R 750 /home/git ;
>         chmod 755 /home/git ;
> 
> srv# more /etc/gotd.conf
> repository belote {
>         path '/home/git/belote'
>         permit rw sylvain
>         permit ro anynomous
> }
> repository bkup {
>         path '/home/git/bkup'
>         permit rw sylvain
>         permit ro anynomous
> }
> repository example_C_skel {
>         path '/home/git/example_C_skel'
>         permit rw sylvain
>         permit ro anonymous
> }
> repository geomant {
>         path '/home/git/geomant'
>         permit rw sylvain
>         permit ro anonymous
> }
> repository nwpg {
>         path '/home/git/nwpg'
>         permit rw sylvain
>         permit ro anonymous
> }
> repository saboua.xyz {
>         path '/home/git/saboua.xyz'
>         permit rw sylvain
>         permit ro anonymous
> }
> repository sylvain.sab.free.fr {
>         path '/home/git/sylvain.sab.free.fr'
>         permit rw sylvain
>         permit ro anonymous
> }
> 
> -- 
> Sylvain Saboua
> looking for a PDP-11
> 
>