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From: Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: How does gitosis know who the key belongs to
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On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 8:21 PM, Howard Miller
<howard@e-learndesign.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is probably another one of my stupid questions.
>
> Gitosis obviously uses keypairs but the config file addresses the user
> by name/host. How does gitosis connect the two together? Is it any
> more complicated than the user detail at the end of the public key?
>
> The second part of my question then is is it possible to use the same
> private key on more than one host?

Everything you ever wanted to know about how gitosis and ssh work
together: http://sitaramc.github.com/0-installing/9-gitosis-server-install.html

Very verbose.  (I've even been told it is too verbose but I chose to
ignore him ;-)

-- 
Sitaram