[Imc-makerspace] Learn how to setup distributed development workflows using Git

[Stewart Dickson]

I'm not sure that Ms. Potter went into Gitosis during her presentation 
-- unless that is the user interface that the GitHub uses -- 
https://github.com

Is it possible for users to add themselves to the git.chambana.net 
repositories remotely -- without logging-in to the server machine 
itself?  I don't see a way into it from http://git.chambana.net

http://scie.nti.st/2007/11/14/hosting-git-repositories-the-easy-and-secure-way   
sez:
> Adding users
>
> The next natural thing to do is to grant some lucky few commit access 
> to the FreeMonkey project. This is a simple two step process.
>
> First, gather their public SSH keys, which I'll call "alice.pub" and 
> "bob.pub", and drop them into keydir/ of your local gitosis-admin 
> repository. Second, edit gitosis.conf and add them to the "members" list.
>
> cd gitosis-admin
> cp ~/alice.pub keydir/
> cp ~/bob.pub keydir/
> git add keydir/alice.pub keydir/bob.pub
> Note that the key filename must have a ".pub" extension.
>
> gitosis.conf changes:
>
>  [group myteam]
> - members = jdoe
> + members = jdoe alice bob
>   writable = free_monkey
> Commit and push:
>
> git commit -a -m "Granted Alice and Bob commit rights to FreeMonkey"
> git push
Looks like something that the server admin still has to do to me.

Thanks,

-Stewart

On 8/9/11 11:21 AM, Erich Heine wrote:
> I'm not sure Ms Potter is working with all the facts in this case. 
> Simply put (and honestly repeating myself for the nth time now) we use 
> a program called gitosis on our code server. This plugin moves the 
> handling of permissions away from operating system (unix style) 
> permissions into its own internal ACL system. Further it puts the 
> login to a single OS level user (in most cases git@) so that one user 
> can be really really restricted to the bare minimum operations. Futher 
> this software really simplifies managing multiple repos on a system 
> with varying levels of access, without overloading the OS native 
> groups etc. Lots more info here: 
> http://scie.nti.st/2007/11/14/hosting-git-repositories-the-easy-and-secure-way 
>
>
> Further, with gitosis, you can get really nice redmine integration via 
> the gitosis plugin for that software, which is also being used on our 
> servers.
>
> Long story short: The need for separate user accounts for git repos is 
> one way of doing it, but it is the naive way, and good only in small 
> scenarios -- it gets really complicated beyond a handful of users 
> and/or a handful of separate repos.
>
> Brian, can you please dive into this, or provide appropriate 
> credentials to me?
>
> Regards,
> Erich
>
> On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 9:00 PM, Stewart Dickson <mathartspd at gmail.com 
> <mailto:mathartspd at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     According to Ms. Potter, in order to push back to the repository,
>     remote users need accounts on
>     git.chambana.net <http://git.chambana.net> and have installed
>     their DSA public keys there.  She says, "It's a server thing,
>     outside of Git, itself."
>
>     Thanks,
>
>     -Stewart
>
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