Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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? The user@host at the end of the public key is mostly a comment. No serious software would use it for authentication, since you can freely edit it without changing the rest of the 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. ... the username -> key association being done in gitosis's configuration itself (the key held in keydir/foobar is the one of user foobar). -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/ -- 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