From: Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:01:58 GMT
Subject: Re: How does gitosis know who the key belongs to
Message-ID: <2e24e5b90909250501m3ba1a1f3kc83ba66db8dfb489@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <26ae428a0909240751k3a799750h121935a79439b389@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 8:21 PM, Howard Miller
<howard@e-learndesign.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is probably another one of my stupid questions.
>
> Gitosis obviously uses keypairs but the config file addresses the user
> by name/host. How does gitosis connect the two together? Is it any
> more complicated than the user detail at the end of the public key?
>
> The second part of my question then is is it possible to use the same
> private key on more than one host?

Everything you ever wanted to know about how gitosis and ssh work
together: http://sitaramc.github.com/0-installing/9-gitosis-server-install.html

Very verbose.  (I've even been told it is too verbose but I chose to
ignore him ;-)

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Sitaram