From: Jakub Narebski Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 18:28:29 GMT Subject: Re: User Authentication ? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <912ec82a0810110941t33343fe1mfe1bce58739f79fa@mail.gmail.com> "Neshama Parhoti" writes: > I want to setup a git server on the web but I need user > authentication. > > From what I understand, currently git-daemon does not support > authentication. The purpose of git-daemon is to allow fast (and bandwidth-saving) anonymous read-only (fetch) access to git repositories. The ability to push via git-daemon was added later, and is turned off by default because it should be used only in special situation. > Is there any way to achieve that ? The reason behind git-daemon not supporting authentication is that re-implementing authentication poorly is a bad idea. If you need authentication there is SSH that provides authentication (for ssh:// protocol), or WebDAV (for HTTP push protocol). Perhaps also future "smart" HTTP server would support some kind of authentification... > I really don't want to give ssh logins for people who I just want to > be able to access my repository... First, you can always set git-shell as shell for those git only accounts. Second, you can set up Gitosis, which IIRC needs only single account, and handles authentication by itself; I have heard also of ssh_acl in this context... I don't know if there is some other equivalent of Gitosis... HTH -- Jakub Narebski Poland ShadeHawk on #git