cloning to gitlab instance on custom ssh port

[ndom91]

Expected behavior

Clone successful, working dir created

Actual behavior

Project Gitlab URL: git@git.xyz.de:2424/abc/xyz.git

Initialized empty Git repository in ./.git/
ssh: connect to host git.newtelco.de port 22: Connection refused
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

According to my googling, many have suggested creating a ~/.ssh/config file to create an ssh shortcut, I did this, however php-censor does not seem to recognize this when executing its ssh git pull. I thought it might have been because it is being executed as the nginx user, so I put this config file also in the home dir of nginx (/var/lib/nginx/.ssh/config), but that wasn't recognized either. Contents of my .ssh/config file are:

Host git.xyz.de
        hostname git.xyz.de
        port 2424
        User git
        PubKeyAuthentication yes
        IdentityFile /home/xyz/.ssh/id_xyz

Then I tried to insert the port into the project URL, but that still wasn't recognized / applied either. It still always said ssh: connect to host git.newtelco.de port 22: Connection refused. I tried the following URL variations:

• git@git.xyz.de:2424/abc/xyz.git
• git@git.xyz.de:2424:abc/xyz.git
• git@git.xyz.de:abc/xyz.git:2424

Has anyone successfully pulled from a custom ssh port? This only applies to self-hosted Gitlab instances as well I guess since Github and Bitbucket and the like aren't going to be changing their SSH ports.. haha

EDIT:
For example, when using git@git.xyz.de:2424/abc/xyz.git

We get the following output (scroll all the way to the right to see full attempted URL):

Command: export GIT_SSH="/tmp/sh_FSkiLt" && cd .. && git clone --recursive  -b "master" "git@git.xyz.de:2424/abc/xyz.git" "./"
Initialized empty Git repository in ./.git/
ssh: connect to host git.xyz.de port 22: Connection refused
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

EDIT2:
When sshing in normally, my ~/.ssh/config works:

$(13:12)-(80Kb)$ ssh git@git.xyz.de
PTY allocation request failed on channel 0
Welcome to GitLab, @root!
Connection to git.xyz.de closed.

Environment

• PHP Censor version - 0.23.0
• nginx version - 1.10.2
• Operating System - CentOS 6.10
• PHP version - 7.0.31
• MySQL/PostgreSQL version - mysql 5.5.60

[ndom91]

So in case anyone was having a similar issue, I found a temporary workaround (not changing the port back! Haha).

So I grepped around a bit and found where the ssh statement is being executed. That is apparently in ./src/Model/Build.php.

Here at line 557 you can replace this:

ssh {$sshFlags} -o IdentityFile={$keyFile} $*

With this:

ssh -p [port number] {$sshFlags} -o IdentityFile={$keyFile} $*

i.e.

ssh -p 2424 {$sshFlags} -o IdentityFile={$keyFile} $*

[corpsee]

@ndom91 Thank you for the useful workaround! 👍 Can you test your case on branch ssh-port?

[ndom91]

@corpsee sure, you just want me to modify the Build.php file on that branch and test it again? Or have you built in another way to modify the ssh port on that branch?

EDIT: I checked out your commit, im a bit confused - where exactly is getAccessInformation('port'); getting the port info from?

[corpsee]

@ndom91 In ssh-port branch port takes from repository URL. Just checkout branch and check your case without manual modifications.

[ndom91]

@corpsee okay, how does it expect the repo URL to be formatted though?

[ndom91]

@corpsee

Okay so I tried the URLs:

• git@git.xyz.de:2424/abc/xyz.git
• git@git.xyz.de:2424:abc/xyz.git

And they both did not work. They didn't complain about hanging up from port 22 however. The port part seemed to work. It now complained about not finding my project, so the URL after the Port somehow was misformatted im assuming..

[garas]

[user@]host.xz:path/to/repo.git/ doesn't support custom port.
Use ssh://[user@]host.xz[:port]/path/to/repo.git/ syntax.

See https://git-scm.com/docs/git-push#_git_urls_a_id_urls_a

[ndom91]

Unfortunately ssh://git@git.xyz.de:2424/abc/xyz.git also resulted in:

GitLab: The project you were looking for could not be found.
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

I am on the ssh-port branch btw, just so we're clear haha

[corpsee]

@ndom91 Can you select from DB table project your project and show me field access_information? You can replace your personal secret information by examples. Thanks.

[ndom91]

So the whole access_information field looks like this (with person info obviously replaced):

  3 | Title  | {"user":"git","domain":"git.xyz.de","port":"2424","reference":"abc\/xyz","origin":"ssh:\/\/git@git.xyz.de:2424\/abc\/xyz.git\/"}