On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Philippe Vaucher <philippe.vaucher@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> After that, entirely within that user, you have an admin user and six >> normal users, to do with as you please. You emulate different users >> simply by using a different username in the URL, like "git clone >> u1:reponame" versus "git clone u2:reponame". > > Hum, except if I missed something the classic way to use gitolite is > to always clone using the same user (git@host:repository.git), and the > "real" identification is done by the ssh keys (which means that > contrary to plain ssh you lose the ability to have two users with the > same ssh key, which should never happen anyway). > > But maybe you're refering to an alternate authentification mechanism > within gitolite I'm unaware of. you should read "entirely within that user" as "entirely within that new, possibly throw-away, Unix userid you created". This is meant to fit with the subject line's "minimum impact on a system" phrase. regards sitaram -- 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