From: Kyle Ackerman <kack@kyleackerman.net>
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 20:04:57 -0600

Sylvain Saboua <sylvain@saboua.me> writes:

> 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
anonymous
> 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
>>> }
anynomous
>>> repository bkup {
>>>         path '/home/git/bkup'
>>>         permit rw sylvain
>>>         permit ro anynomous
>>> }
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
>>> }
>>> 
Would this be a misspelling in your configuration?