self-hosted git tutorial missing step

[ckp95]

I tried to follow the tutorial but I wasn't able to log in as the git user over ssh. This is after following the instructions on the ssh keys page to disable password logins.

I would get the errors:

$ ssh 'git@<my-site>'
git@<my-site>: Permission denied (publickey).

On the VPS the /var/log/auth.log showed login attempts rejected with the message User git not allowed because account is locked

I managed to fix this problem by issuing the command passwd -d git after the useradd -m git -d /var/git -s /bin/bash command, as per this post.

After doing this I was able to push to the git repo from my machine.

[Jocomol]

Feel free to document your findings in the given article and create a pull request.