From: Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 07:52:47 GMT
Subject: Re: "trying out" gitolite with minimum impact on a system
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On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Philippe Vaucher
<philippe.vaucher@gmail.com> wrote:
>> After that, entirely within that user, you have an admin user and six
>> normal users, to do with as you please.  You emulate different users
>> simply by using a different username in the URL, like "git clone
>> u1:reponame" versus "git clone u2:reponame".
>
> Hum, except if I missed something the classic way to use gitolite is
> to always clone using the same user (git@host:repository.git), and the
> "real" identification is done by the ssh keys (which means that
> contrary to plain ssh you lose the ability to have two users with the
> same ssh key, which should never happen anyway).
>
> But maybe you're refering to an alternate authentification mechanism
> within gitolite I'm unaware of.

you should read "entirely within that user" as "entirely within that
new, possibly throw-away, Unix userid you created".  This is meant to
fit with the subject line's "minimum impact on a system" phrase.

regards

sitaram