Pushing to local gitosis server asks for password

Question

I've installed gitosis onto my server, but seeing as I'm developing on the server, I'd like to be able to push to gitosis, so I can work from macmini as well. The server is called workwork and the gitosis-admin has the daniel@workwork.pub file generated from the server, and has this in gitosis.conf:

[group testproject]
writable = testproject
members = daniel@workwork

And that successfully has been pushed to the server.

rails new testproject
cd testproject/
git init
git add .
git commit -a -m "init commit"
git remote add origin gitosis@workwork:testproject.git
git push origin master:refs/heads/master

The last command gives this: gitosis@workwork's password: gitosis doesn't have a password, and pushing a new project from my macmini just does the correct git pushing.

Answer 1

Gitosis has known unfixed bugs in its installation method that prevent it from working without manual intervention. You should not use it and instead switch to gitolite. Additionally gitosis is unmaintained and deprecated, further reasons to switch to gitolite.