Permission denied (publickey)

The problem is that the process running as root is probably trying to connect as root or something like that. There are ways to work around this but first, why are you running this as root?

Thanks Martin Pool, that solved my question.

Hey, that solved it for me too.
Now I have to ask, why do all my default processes create files as owner root, group root?
Did i make a mistake during installation or something?

For example, I download panda3d .tar.gz from panda3d.org and save to disk
then i right click to get a context menu and choose "open with software center"

It creates all the files as owner, group = root

So when I try
 kesten$ bzr branch lp:~panda3d/panda3d/samples
i get permission denied /usr/share/panda3d/samples - starting the process as user "kesten" (before the prompt) I am not able to modify/create the samples directory

sudo bzr branch lp:~panda3d/panda3d/samples would presumeable be able to create/modify the directory, but it can't connect to Launchpad becase lp is expecting user kesten, not root. Have i got it right?

So my question is, if i'm user kesten, and i download a .tar.gz and open/install it with software center, why does it make root the owner and not kesten?

kesten

On 18 November 2011 12:30, kesten broughton
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> Question #99703 on Bazaar changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/bzr/+question/99703
>
> kesten broughton posted a new comment:
> Hey, that solved it for me too.
> Now I have to ask, why do all my default processes create files as owner root, group root?
> Did i make a mistake during installation or something?
>
> For example, I download panda3d .tar.gz from panda3d.org and save to disk
> then i right click to get a context menu and choose "open with software center"

Was it really a tar.gz, or a .deb file?
>
> It creates all the files as owner, group = root
>
> So when I try
>  kesten$ bzr branch lp:~panda3d/panda3d/samples
> i get permission denied /usr/share/panda3d/samples   - starting the process as user "kesten" (before the prompt) I am not able to modify/create the samples directory
>
> sudo bzr branch lp:~panda3d/panda3d/samples  would presumeable be able
> to create/modify the directory, but it can't connect to Launchpad becase
> lp is expecting user kesten, not root.  Have i got it right?

That is correct.

> So my question is, if i'm user kesten, and i download a .tar.gz and
> open/install it with software center, why does it make root the owner
> and not kesten?

If it's a .deb software package, then it's installed system wide, not
for your account, and therefore it's owned by root.

The short answer is that you probably want to check out the samples
directory in to your home directory, not into /usr, and then you won't
have a permissions problem. After you check them out you can copy
them, if you want to make them available to other people on the same
machine.

  bzr branch lp:~panda3d/panda3d/samples ~/panda-samples
  (optional):
  sudo cp -p ~/panda-samples /usr/share/panda3d/samples
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Martin

Hi,
i am also getting the same error when i try to load the trunk. and here is the following error

bzr launchpad-login haseeb
[haseeb@localhost ~]$ bzr branch lp:gtg
Permission denied (publickey).
bzr: ERROR: Connection closed: Unexpected end of message. Please check connectivity and permissions, and report a bug if problems persist.

@Abdul, as I said above, you need to make sure your ssh public key is registered with launchpad. See https://help.launchpad.net/YourAccount/CreatingAnSSHKeyPair

Worked for me but my config file was in /etc/ssh/. Thanks Martin.

/etc/ssh is the system-wider config, user information should be recorded there since this is exposed to all users.

Sorry Martin, you wanted to say should be or shouldn't be?