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I am trying to setup Rest API for gerrit trigger jenkins plugin. I have created a service user in git.

But now when i am entering the http username/password for service user and pressing test connection . I am getting Http connection unauthorized connection.

HTTP password is nothing but the SSH public key added in the gerrit config UI.

Best Regards, Saurav

saurav
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  • How did you create this user? Did you use "gerrit create-account" command? Have you set the HTTP password? I think it's a good idea to set a password... – Marcelo Ávila de Oliveira Oct 24 '16 at 00:13
  • I created through gerrit web ui...i did not explicitly set the http password...it took the ssh public key as the password...i am not getting any option to change it... – saurav Oct 24 '16 at 02:13
  • How did you create an account using Gerrit UI? SSH key is not a substitute for the password... SSH key is used for SSH access and the password on the other hand is used for HTTP connection (REST). – Marcelo Ávila de Oliveira Oct 24 '16 at 10:22

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I was facing similar problem and then I found the solution here: https://dev.vaadin.com/review/Documentation/dev-rest-api.html#_authentication

The gerrituser and httppassword should be used from http://gerrit-url/#/settings/http-password link. You can test that with .netrc file as well.

I don't know how your gerrit was configured so I suggest you should also try to switch from basic_auth to digest_auth. eg:

curl -X GET --digest -u gerrituser:httppassword http://gerrit-url/a/path/to/api

curl -X POST --digest -u gerrituser:httppassword -d '{json data}' http://gerrit-url/a/path/to/api
Mrinal Deo
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Try something like this:

  1. By sure that you have user on Gerrit
  2. Generate HTTP password for this user in Gerrit settings

  3. Copy repository using http (command below)

    git clone http://gerrituser:httppassword@gerrit_url/p/nameofproject.git

  4. If you want use JSON file try this example command,create file body.json:

    curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST --data @body.json http://gerrituser:httppassword@gerrit_url/a/changes/Change_Id/revisions/commit/review

  5. JSON files and rest command of Gerrit REST API you can find here: https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/Documentation/rest-api.html

ps. the letters /a/ and /p/ are necessary, remember of user permission and HTTP password should be without slash.

Mateusz Wocka
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