Adding users to Gitolite

Question

I\'m trying to setup Gitolite but I\'m running into a weird issue:

When I add a new public key file for a new user (say raphaelcruzeiro.pub), giolite sends me the follow

Answer 1

Note that the recent gitolite v3.5.2-10-g437b497 introduces (September 2013, commit 59c817d0):

ukm, for "user key management".

User key management allows certain users to add and remove keys.

It introduces a level of delegation, when not just the gitolite admin user can add new ssh public keys, but other users can now do so as well.

You can see it in action in "contrib/t/ukm.t":

You need to enable that feature:

# enable user key management in a simple form.
# Guest key managers can add keyids looking like email addresses, but
# cannot add emails containing example.com or hemmecke.org.
system("sed -i \"s/.*ENABLE =>.*/'UKM_CONFIG'=>{'FORBIDDEN_GUEST_PATTERN'=>'example.com|hemmecke.org'}, ENABLE => ['ukm',/\" $h/.gitolite.rc");

Answer 2

Here's the workflow for adding users to gitolite:

Add the users public key to the map keys as <username>.pub

Edit your gitolite config file (gitolite.conf), this file is in the map conf. When you open it, everthing will be clear.

example:

repo  someproject

  RW+ = darhuuk

  RW  = raphaelcruzeiro

  R   = santaclaus

Commit the new key and the modified config file. Then push it to your gitolite server.

That should do it!

[Edit] BTW, here is the gitolite paragraph that explains what I wrote above: http://gitolite.com/gitolite/conf.html.