From: Sylvain Saboua <sylvain@saboua.me>
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 19:17:17 +0200

On 2026-09-22 18:28, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> 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.
> 
Here is the log with two `-v's, using one after the other
got cl ssh://anonymous@srv/belote and ssh://anonymous@srv/bkup
from a local machine:

srv# /usr/local/sbin/gotd -d -v -v
parent: socket: /var/run/gotd.sock
parent: user: _gotd
listen: listening for client connections
listen: gotd_accept: new client connected on fd 6 uid 1002 gid 1002
parent: recv_connect: new client uid 1002 connected on fd 7
parent: list-refs request from uid 1002
parent: starting auth for uid 1002 repository belote
parent: proc auth /home/git/belote is on fd 8
auth /home/git/belote: authentication request received
auth /home/git/belote: authenticating uid 1002 gid 1002
auth /home/git/belote: no git repository found
parent: uid 1002: no git repository found
parent: uid 1002: disconnecting
parent: kill -15 68837
auth /home/git/belote: auth /home/git/belote: shutting down
listen: client disconnecting
listen: client on fd 6 disconnecting
parent: reaped pid 68837
listen: gotd_accept: new client connected on fd 6 uid 1002 gid 1002
parent: recv_connect: new client uid 1002 connected on fd 7
parent: list-refs request from uid 1002
parent: starting auth for uid 1002 repository bkup
parent: proc auth /home/git/bkup is on fd 8
auth /home/git/bkup: authentication request received
auth /home/git/bkup: authenticating uid 1002 gid 1002
auth /home/git/bkup: no git repository found
parent: uid 1002: no git repository found
parent: uid 1002: disconnecting
parent: kill -15 61367
auth /home/git/bkup: auth /home/git/bkup: shutting down
listen: client disconnecting
listen: client on fd 6 disconnecting
parent: reaped pid 61367

>> 
>> 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
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