authorized-keys

Erlang, SSH and authorized_keys

Playing with the ssh and public_key application in Erlang, I've discovered a nice feature. I was trying to connect to my running Erlang SSH daemon by using a rsa key, but the authentication was failing and I was prompted for a password. After some debugging and tracing (and a couple of coffees), I've realized that, for some weird reaso...

git push returns "fatal: protocol error: bad line length character"

I set up a remote Git repository on a shared host account I own. To allow another developer to push/pull, I added his public key (id_rsa.pub) to the end of .ssh/authorized_keys on the shared host. Then he was able to do "git push". But I want to make sure that he cannot do anything else on my shared host but access git, so I added thi...