Git authentication over apache_mod_krb

Question

I\'m using git repo with git-http-backend. In apache2 I have location what needs authentication for clone and push actions. When I protected it location with AuthType Basic

Answer 1

It's something weird in libcurl, not a problem in Git. There is a workaround. Libcurl doesn't enable any authentication code if you don't pass username and password to the library. This happens if you use negotiate (kerberos) too which doesn't require username and password. The simple solution:

echo http://x:x@git.example.com > ~/.git-credentials
git config --global credential.helper store

x:x is the username and password. You can use any random string there. It's only needed to enable the code path to authentication in libcurl. Then kerberos will work (works for me :) ).