On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 03:51:44PM +0100, Howard Miller wrote: > 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? Not much different. It uses the command feature of the authorized_keys file of ssh to limit access to the 'gitosis-serve' command which is given the username from the gitosis.conf as argument. gitosis-server then takes care of the access control. > The second part of my question then is is it possible to use the same > private key on more than one host? Yes definitely. It identifies the user not the host. Although you can use differenty keys if you want. cheers Heiko -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html