Re: How does gitosis know who the key belongs to

From: Howard Miller <howard@e-learndesign.co.uk>
Date: Sep 25, 2009, 08:31 UTC
Message-ID: <26ae428a0909250131k5fb04637ndbe765dce5afcc63@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <vpqhburigfs.fsf@olympe.imag.fr>

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>
> If you're confused with "name", then just think about "filename
> holding the key".
>
> If you want to name yourself "howard", then put your key in
> keydir/howard and then use "howard" in the config file. gitosis will
> add the relevant
>
> command="gitosis-server howard" ssh-whatever <your-key-here> <irrelevant-comment>
>
> to the ~git/.ssh/auhtorized_keys file.
>
> You chose your "name" by chosing the filename, then you use this name
> in the config file, and then gitosis does the job.

Ok... so is it completely ignoring the @host bit then? None of my public key files are called howard@host1.pub (for example).

Just so you don't think I'm completely crazy, I actually use three different machines for development and (of course) I'm 'howard' on all of them. I was trying to get my head around the best way to set it up. I wasn't clear if I could simply recycle the same public key or if I needed to be three different users in gitosis.

Cheers.... Howard