Git Server Frustration (Gitosis, Gitolite, etc)

From my experience, all you need is a SSH server with a single git account/login that you are able to connect to using one of your public keys. Install gitolite using SSH (copies gitloite from your client to the server & does the basic setup) and have your developers send you their public keys. Add these keys to the gitolite-admin repository in your ~ and push.

Why does a developer need more than one keypair in the first place, even if multiple machines are used? Such cases will neither influence how SSH handles authentication nor how gitolite handles authorization: they're still SSH keys.

• If a developer has to use several keypairs (one for git, another for some other server), let them handle the complexity and advise them to create an entry in ~/.ssh/config for each keypair/server combination they use.

• If a developer has a different keypair on every machine used, gitolite groups can combine several public keys:

@agross = agross-1 agross-2

A couple of pointers:

The section about git on the server on Scott Chacon's pro git book

Gitorious is FOSS

I maintain a gitosis config at work, and when a developer has multiple ssh keys, all I have to do is put all these keys in the same keydir/user.pub file.

So concatenate all your keys into keydir/benny.pub and you shoud be all set.