Re: git no longer prompting for password

2012-08-27 Thread Iain Paton
On 26/08/12 10:57, Iain Paton wrote: If %{THE_REQUEST} =~ /git-receive-pack/ I've just discovered that the If .. directive only appears in apache 2.4 so something more generic will probably be a better idea. Not everyone will be running 2.4.x for a while yet. Iain -- To unsubscribe

Re: git no longer prompting for password

2012-08-26 Thread Iain Paton
On 25/08/12 21:39, Jeff King wrote: I think your regex is the culprit. The first request comes in with: GET /git/test.git/info/refs?service=git-receive-pack HTTP/1.1 The odd URL is because we are probing to see if the server even supports smart-http. But note that it does not match your

Re: git no longer prompting for password

2012-08-26 Thread Iain Paton
On 26/08/12 11:13, Jeff King wrote: Yeah, I'm surprised it took this long to come up, too. Perhaps most people just do anonymous http, and then rely on ssh for pushing to achieve the same effect. Or maybe my analysis of the problem is wrong. :) I'd be using ssh to push too, but the simple

git no longer prompting for password

2012-08-24 Thread Iain Paton
Hi List, A recent update to git 1.7.12 from 1.7.3.5 seems to have changed something - trying to push to a smart http backend no longer prompts for a password and hence fails the server auth. The server is currently running git 1.7.9 behind apache 2.4.3 with an almost verbatim copy of the