Re: git + ssh + key authentication feature-request

From: Mark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk>
Date: Feb 9, 2006, 00:55 UTC
Message-ID: <slrndul4oi.2i8.mdw@metalzone.distorted.org.uk>
In-Reply-To: <7vacd1mkk9.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:

> Correct modulo s/git-daemon/git-shell/.

D'oh!  Finger trouble!

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> Now, you brought up an interesting way to do this without using
> unix uid.  Some sshd installations do not honour environment=
> settings, but that problem aside, you could define a token, say
> GIT_USER, with different value on each line in the shared
> authorized_keys file so that you can distinguish incoming
> developers that share the same "home directory", and change the
> example hook Carl gave us to use that token instead of the unix
> user identity.  I'd imagine that would work quite well.

Quite possibly.

Don't give me the credit here, by the way. I completely stole this whole idea from the Subversion documentation: see `SSH configuration tricks' in

  http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.serverconfig.svnserve.html

at the bottom.

Oh, any my mistake: the `environment...' options go at the beginning of an authorized_keys line, not at the end.

It's so time I went to sleep.

-- [mdw]