Comment 1 by Sindre Myren, Apr 19, 2009

At least SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND actually seems to be set.

This is what I have done so far in hope of retrieving some useful 
information:

1) Adding this script as a ForcedCommand for the git user in 
/etc/ssh/sshd_conf:
#!/bin/bash
export SSH_SESSION=1
if [ -z "$SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND" ] ; then
    export SSH_LOGIN=
    echo "Error: Login to this account is not permitted!"
else
    export SSH_LOGIN=
    [ -r /etc/profile ] && source /etc/profile
    [ -r ~/.profile ] && source ~/.profile
    echo Your command was: $SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND
    
fi

2) On the command line of my laptop, i run the command:
$ ssh git@my.domain.com hello
Your command was: hello

Comment 2 by Sindre Myren, Apr 19, 2009

Also the python script (gitserve.py), are able to read 
SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND

1) So, i remove the ForcedCommand from the config file, and add an 
extra line to /home/www/indefero/scripts:

  sys.stderr.write("DEBUG: Your command was: %s\n" % 
os.environ["SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND"])

So that the code looks like this:

/gitserve.py:n = len("/gitserve.py")
GITSERVEPHP = '%s/gitserve.php' % 
traceback.extract_stack(limit=1)[0][0][0:-n]
status, output = commands.getstatusoutput('php %s %s' % 
(GITSERVEPHP, sys.argv[1]))
if status == 0:
    os.execvp('git', ['git', 'shell', '-c', output.strip()])
else:
    sys.stderr.write("DEBUG: Your command was: %s\n" % 
os.environ["SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND"])
    sys.stderr.write("%s\n" % output)
sys.exit(1)


2)I then return to my laptop, and executes the command:

$ git pull origin master
DEBUG: Your command was: git-upload-pack 'repos/test-private.git'
Need SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND in environment.
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

Comment 3 by Sindre Myren, Apr 19, 2009

progress..

I figured out that if i replaced '$_ENV' with '$_SERVER'
in scripts/gitserve.php, thins started to work.

Almost...

Also, I had do set the ..._git_home_dir in the config file, as my 
git home was not /home/git but /srv/git (which was not documented).

When I that was done, I got a new error:

$ git pull
Repository read access denied.
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

This happen despite that the user in question has his public ssh key 
commited, and that he is a member of the project in question.

Comment 4 by Sindre Myren, Apr 19, 2009

(solved)

Ok. setting the last variable
idf_plugin_syncgit_base_repositories

solved my problem.

But as mentioned earlier, $_ENV had to be replaces with $_SERVER for 
everything to work for me.

Comment 5 by Loïc d'Anterroches, Apr 19, 2009

waouh! This is one of the best bug report I have ever read, with 
detailed steps etc. I will merge $_SERVER and $_ENV to be sure the 
data are there.

Comment 6 by Loïc d'Anterroches, Apr 19, 2009

Fixed in commit 2b87437, thanks a lot. If you are ok, I will add you 
to the list of the contributors as your bug reports have helped the 
fast fixing of critical issues.

Comment 7 by Brenda Wallace, Jun 10, 2010

I just hit this bug too -- i don't think you pushed it to the master 
branch on git://projects.ceondo.com/indefero.git yet.

I solved it using git cherry-pick 
2b8743727a35397be5dbbc12a537562c0d85041d