Unable to push anything to my own repos - fresh user, fresh keys, fresh repo #2118

andreuz commented 2025年09月02日 13:04:26 +02:00

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After tons of problems with my previous user (same issue as now), I decided to start with a fresh account (after deleting everything in my old account, and removing the old account as well) to ensure that no old broken references in Codeberg systems could be causing the problem... and yet, I'm completely unable to use Codeberg at any capacity 😢.

• My new username: andreuz
• The repo: https://codeberg.org/andreuz/experiment

My public SSH key (in ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub):

ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIAkrcWBoU7m2v3W6AETOw+0ei+NICDIuXzixaMXud/uL [redacted@email.com]

My SSH config (in ~/.ssh/config):

Host Codeberg
 HostName codeberg.org
 IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_ed25519

Command:

git push -u origin main

Git Output:

Enumerating objects: 3, done.
Counting objects: 100% (3/3), done.
Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 920 bytes | 920.00 KiB/s, done.
Total 3 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0 (from 0)
remote: 
remote: Forgejo: User permission denied for writing.
To ssh://codeberg.org/andreuz/experiment.git
 ! [remote rejected] main -> main (pre-receive hook declined)
error: failed to push some refs to 'ssh://codeberg.org/andreuz/experiment.git'

./.git/config:

[core]
	repositoryformatversion = 0
	filemode = true
	bare = false
	logallrefupdates = true
[remote "origin"]
	url = ssh://git@codeberg.org/andreuz/experiment.git
	fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*

There is nothing about authentication (I checked & re-checked hundreds of times), it seems something entirely different is going on... this problem has persisted for more than a year now.

I also checked the repository config to make it as permissive as possible, to ensure that no rule set by default or by me is blocking push operations.

There was an old issue describing a similar problem (but not the same), and many of us made the mistake of conflate it with what we were experiencing... so it seems that this confusion led to not many people paying attention to it (the "Phantom user" is me):
#657 (comment)

### Comment After tons of problems with my previous user (same issue as now), I decided to start with a fresh account (after deleting everything in my old account, and removing the old account as well) to ensure that no old broken references in Codeberg systems could be causing the problem... and yet, I'm completely unable to use Codeberg at any capacity 😢. - My new username: andreuz - The repo: https://codeberg.org/andreuz/experiment My public SSH key (in `~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub`): ``` ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIAkrcWBoU7m2v3W6AETOw+0ei+NICDIuXzixaMXud/uL [redacted@email.com] ``` My SSH config (in `~/.ssh/config`): ``` Host Codeberg HostName codeberg.org IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_ed25519 ``` Command: ``` git push -u origin main ``` Git Output: ``` Enumerating objects: 3, done. Counting objects: 100% (3/3), done. Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 920 bytes | 920.00 KiB/s, done. Total 3 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0 (from 0) remote: remote: Forgejo: User permission denied for writing. To ssh://codeberg.org/andreuz/experiment.git ! [remote rejected] main -> main (pre-receive hook declined) error: failed to push some refs to 'ssh://codeberg.org/andreuz/experiment.git' ``` `./.git/config`: ``` [core] repositoryformatversion = 0 filemode = true bare = false logallrefupdates = true [remote "origin"] url = ssh://git@codeberg.org/andreuz/experiment.git fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/* ``` There is nothing about authentication (I checked & re-checked hundreds of times), it seems something entirely different is going on... this problem has persisted for more than a year now. I also checked the repository config to make it as permissive as possible, to ensure that no rule set by default or by me is blocking push operations. There was an old issue describing a similar problem (but not the same), and many of us made the mistake of conflate it with what we were experiencing... so it seems that this confusion led to not many people paying attention to it (the "Phantom user" is me): https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/Community/issues/657#issuecomment-3177048

fnetX commented 2025年09月02日 23:47:45 +02:00

Please run

ssh -T git@codeberg.org -v

and

ssh -T git@Codeberg -v

and post the results.

Please run ~~~ ssh -T git@codeberg.org -v ~~~ and ~~~ ssh -T git@Codeberg -v ~~~ and post the results.

andreuz commented 2025年09月05日 07:55:33 +02:00

Hi @fnetX , I'm sorry for taking so long to respond.

In the end it was my fault, the two commands connect successfully, but the one with codeberg.org used my old credentials, which map to an old user that I'm locked out from because I lost access to its associated email (I guess that's why I didn't see a credentials problem on the command output when I ran git push).

Hi @fnetX , I'm sorry for taking so long to respond. In the end it was my fault, the two commands connect successfully, but the one with `codeberg.org` used my old credentials, which map to an old user that I'm locked out from because I lost access to its associated email (I guess that's why I didn't see a credentials problem on the command output when I ran `git push`).

fnetX commented 2025年09月05日 15:45:48 +02:00

That was kinda my suspicion. I noticed the mismatch in your push URL (to codeberg.org) and the Hostname in the SSH config (which is only Codeberg). Setting this to Codeberg.org would probably fix your issue, if you haven't already done that.

That was kinda my suspicion. I noticed the mismatch in your push URL (to codeberg.org) and the Hostname in the SSH config (which is only Codeberg). Setting this to Codeberg.org would probably fix your issue, if you haven't already done that.