Re: User authentication in GIT

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On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 12:47 PM, supadhyay <supadhyay@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Robin and Jakub,
> ...
> Robin:
> All users must have their own SSH key. You do not create keys for them.
> My rely: can you please give some more idea about how it works.. I am not
> getting this or if you can provide any link for this to understand.

SSH authentication can use private/public keys. The user generates a
keypair on their computer and gives you their public key, the private
key stays on their computer.
>
> Jakub:
> My reply: existing version control system used  pserver protocol.
>
> You would still need for each user to generate their own SSH key.
> My reply: Do I need to store all end users sSH key in .ssh/authorized_keys
> file on GIT server?

If you were to do it manually, yes. But if you use gitolite [1], then
you add them to another git repository which handles everything for
you.

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[1]: https://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite
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