What "access rights" could be blocking access to a gitlab repository?

I'm pretty sure you have a configuration problem between SSH and the system because of this SSH debug message :

client_input_channel_req: channel 0 rtype [email protected] reply 0

You receive this message immediately after a successful authentication and no message from bash which means no program was launched after login.

Watch in your passwd file if you have the right settings for the gitlab user :

gitlab:x:1011:1012:GitLab,,,:/path/to/gitlab:/bin/bash

Verify bash has no weird thing in configurations files such as

bash.bashrc
.profile
.bashrc

Then go up to the uper level : Gitlab-shell Verify the /path/to/gitlab/.ssh/authorized_keys has the configuration below :

command="/path/to/gitlab/gitlab-shell/bin/gitlab-shell key-2",no-port-forwarding,no-X11-forwarding,no-agent-forwarding,no-pty ssh-rsa A...

with /path/to/gitlab/gitlab-shell/bin/gitlab-shell owned by the gitlab user and executable.

You can be sure gitlab-shell is fully operational by launching the command :

# /path/to/gitlab-shell/bin/gitlab-shell
Welcome to GitLab, Anonymous!

If the remote login is actually working and properly connected to the gitlab-shell, you should get the same welcome message (but matched to the user whose ssh key you used to login) before it dumps you out if you try to login remotely.

$ ssh gitlab@server
Welcome to GitLab, <your user's full name>!
Connection to <server> closed.

No message here probably indicates ssh isn't connecting you to gitlab at all.

Finally, checkout your gitlab-shell configuration (config.yml) and verify if :

http_settings:
    # trailing slash is important
    gitlab_url: "https://remote_server/"
    ca_file: /path/to/webserver/certificate.crt

and eventually :

    self_signed_cert: false

What "access rights" could be blocking access to a gitlab repository?

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