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How does gitosis know who the key belongs to

Subject: How does gitosis know who the key belongs to

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Howard Miller· Sep 24, 2009, 14:49 UTC · lore

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?

Cheers,

Howard

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