Gitosis post-receive hook to deploy repository getting public key errors

Question

I have gitosis setup on my server and I\'m trying to create a post-receive hook that will checkout changes to a working directory on the remote machine.

Initially I

Answer 1

You need to make sure of the value of the $HOME environment variable for the git user executing that hook.

$HOME/.ssh is where ssh will look for the private key during the handshake.
Also, make sure the ssh directory on the gitosis end has the right permissions.

server$ chmod go-w ~/
server$ chmod 700 ~/.ssh
server$ chmod 600 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

Finally see the "Permission denied (publickey)" section on GitHub, which repeat what I mentioned above about the HOME:

This is usually caused when ssh cannot find your keys.
Make sure your key is in the default location, ~/.ssh.