I've been trying very hard to get gitolite working. I used the package approach and am able to do a first "git push" with a first user to the server. After that, if if I add a key and try to push something again, I get an error saying "W access for gitolite-admin DENIED to mike"- note that it's supposed to be using the gitolite user- not my username. I guess this is because I'm adding private keys for both users in my .bash_profile. (I'm using msysgit)...
Any ideas?
Thanks a lot!
I guess this is because I'm adding private keys for both users
True, you should use a dedicated public/private key for the gitolite
user, the one which is also used for ssh access.
You can confirm it by looking in the gitolite logs (in ~gitolite/.gitolite/logs
)
Using multiple keys is done through a config
file.
See as an example "users are asked for password while using gitolite".
The %HOME%/.ssh/config
file could contain something like:
HostName gitoliteserver
User gitolite
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/gitolite
Host mikegitolite
HostName gitoliteserver
User mike
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa
Don't forget to define HOME
is you are on Windows: it isn't defined by default)
The OP Mike Gagnon confirms in the comments the following config is working:
host gitolite
user gitolite
hostname myhost
port 443
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/gitolite
host edison
user gitolite
hostname myhost
port 443
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/mike
I had a similar problem in that I could only make one push to a new gitolite repo, then I lost access.
I was able to fix this by adding my username to the .conf file on the first push:
%> cat conf/gitolite.conf repo gitolite-admin
RW+ = git-admin myusername