Got Locked Out From Gitolite

A couple of years ago I installed gitolite to self-host Git and access it via SSH. All was well until recently I discovered a problem: I could not access some repositories:

$ git clone git@simpleit.us:apache2-config.git
Cloning into 'apache2-config'...
R access for apache2-config DENIED to gitadmin
(Or there may be no repository at the given path. Did you spell it correctly?)
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.

It used to work fine. Wait! Why do I see the message, if I have totally different user name:

R access for apache2-config DENIED to gitadmin

This was the clue. I checked the config file for gitolite:

repo    gitolite-admin
        RW+     =   gitadmin
        RW+     =   aaa

repo    vietstartupjobs
        RW+     =   bbb
        R       =   ccc

repo    apache2-config
        RW+     =   ddd

Clearly it supposed to be like this. All I need is access to apache2-config using my username. There has been some change to gitolite that went under my radar. So I sudo su git and edited the file ~/.gitolite/conf/gitolite.conf to add virtual ID gitadmin to the repositories that I need to access:

repo    gitolite-admin
        RW+     =   gitadmin
        RW+     =   aaa

repo    vietstartupjobs
        RW+     =   gitadmin
        RW+     =   bbb
        R       =   ccc

repo    apache2-config
        RW+     =   gitadmin
        RW+     =   ddd

That solved my problem. If you want to use gitolite for self-hosting your Git projects privately, checkout these links:

• Gitolite Quick Install
• Gitolite Repository