2009/9/25 Howard Miller <howard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Hi, > > I don't really understand the answers I have been given. Trying > desperately not to "top post" see bellow... > > 2009/9/24 Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: >> 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). > > > Yes, I realise that the association is done im gitosis' config file, > but that is exactly my question - how does that association work? > > To take a step back - I have to put a name (or a name@hostname) in the > configuration file. How do I know what that should be in the general > sense? When I create a key it doesn't ask me for the username I want > so I see a disconnect here. Do I put a name, do I put name@hostname, > does it matter and (again) how does it know which is 'my' public key? > Is it the naming convention of the key or something magic? Plus, when > I actually use gitosis, I am logging as the user 'git' so how does it > know who I am? I am thoroughly confused by the whole thing. I'm > probably missing something really obvious but, AFAIK, this is not > covered at all in the docs. > > Thanks! > > Howard > Ahh... just read Heiko's post properly and actually looked at the authorized_keys file. This is now starting to make some sense. So the name in config has to match that sent to gitosis-server presumably. I still don't quite see the cause and effect. If I don't like being howard@xxxxx and would rather be just 'howard' what can I change? It tells me not to edit that file! -- 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