Share a git repo over LAN

Question

I would like to share some of my work with my colleagues. The whole company uses flavors of Debian Linux and is connected in a LAN network. I don't want to bug the administrator with access to the servers and would just like to leave my PC on, and provide read access to anyone interested.

But I can't figure out how to do it. We use ssh for authentication and gitolite for authorization.

What was tried:

$ sudo adduser guest
$ su guest
$ cd ~
$ git clone somerepo
$ ls -l somerepo
drwxr-xr-x 4 guest guest 4096 Mar 22 14:11 somerepo

On a different machine:

$ git clone guest@192.168.56.1:somerepo
guest@192.168.56.1's password

Answer 1

The password is probably for ssh, not git. You probably need to set an empty password for guest via

sudo passwd -d guest

I would however rather recommend to keep a password that you give to everyone allowed, and encourage them to setup a private / public key for ssh if they want to login without providing a password. This way, you have no open login for everyone (even undesired) on your host. To do so, every one else should use ssh-keygen to generate their key if they don't have one, and then

ssh-copy-id guest@yourhost

to install their public key on yourhost and login without a password. This will add their public key to the file /home/guest/.ssh/authorized_keys on yourhost