Registering packages with git-based repository requiring auth

[evil-shrike]

I run a private-bower with default config. Went to its webapp and registered a package. That package has git url leading to my internal git (Bitbucket). The git's repo for the package requires authentication.
Auth will be resolved on the client when a user will install the package (bower install) - via git's credential manager. But private-bower also needs to get some info from git repo and it can't.

As I understand private-bower doesn't support git authentication. In webapp I can see error:

Failed to load package details! (Your private-bower server needs read access to this Git repository and the git repository must contain a bower.json file!)

[janjaap]

I ran into the same problem. Installing Github ssh key on the server and making sure that none of the folders in the path where private_bower is installed are owned by root, solved it.

[janjaap]

Also: #149 (comment)

[felipeplets]

@evil-shrike could you solve this issue?

I could not realise yet how to solve it, I can access my BitBucket repository from the server using my SSH keys, but Private Bower always return the same message:

Failed to load package details! (Your private-bower server needs read access to this Git repository and the git repository must contain a bower.json file!)

• I can clone the repository in the server just by running: git clone REPO
• The repo has the bower.json file located in the root folder in the master branch

[evil-shrike]

@felipeplets no, I moved onto https://github.com/presidenten/bowers-nest