Question

I currently have a git setup where git is a user on my linux box. /home/git exists and there are several git repositories in /home/git. The git user has a shell of /usr/bin/git-shell. If a user needed access to the repository, I’d just grab their SSH DSA public key and embed it into /home/git/.ssh/authorized_keys and they’d be able to work with the repository.

The problem is now that I need a second repository that needs to support a different set of users. I don’t want to create a new account for each repository that I create.

What’s the best way of keeping this working with SSH? (the easiest way of all the sharing techniques I’ve seen that git supports)

Answer 1

You might consider using gitosis.

Main advantages are:

• only one ssh user (might be a disadvantage)
• users identified by SSH keys
• users and repos created on the fly by using git itself