Re: git + ssh + key authentication feature-request

[Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk>]

On Wednesday 08 February 2006 23:23, Nicolas Vilz 'niv' wrote:

> in my case it would be only one system-user which has full access to
> several repositories. At this time, the users which use that account,
> have to give a password, which isn't that bad... it would be easier and
> more secure for me, not to give a password, but ask the users for the
> ssh pubkey..

This sounds like you haven't got sshd set up correctly.  You can get it to log 
you in soley based on keys, and whether or not you give a password is then 
dependent soley on whether your private key has a pass phrase or not and then 
whether or not you are using some ssh-agent to remember them for you.

I have it setup so that access to ssh controlled accounts is soley via key.

Private keys remaining on fixed computers at home have no passphrase, my 
laptop has a private key with a passphrase which I enter once on login.

I have several accounts around the place with my public keys enumerated in 
their .ssh/authorized_keys file, so I have been able to contact git 
repositories with urls like

git@www.chandlerfamily.org.uk
www-data@www.chandlerfamily.org.uk
 and for my own account
just www.chandlerfamily.org.uk

all without entering a password.

But following the discussion thread Junio pointed to I have converted 
everything to shared repositories and I now only use my own account to log 
in.

-- 
Alan Chandler
http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk
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