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Adding users to Gitolite


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 following warning on push:

remote: 
remote:         ***** WARNING *****
remote:         the following users (pubkey files in parens) do not appear in the config file:
remote: raphaelcruzeiro(raphaelcruzeiro.pub)

And when I try to clone a repository with this user, I get a permission denied:

Cloning into gitolite-admin...
R access for gitolite-admin DENIED to raphaelcruzeiro
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

Am I missing something here? Where and how do I add the user to the configuration file?

Unfortunately Gitolite's documentation is rather vague on this matter.


Solution

  • 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.