Comments on: Installing Git and gitosis on Ubuntu

By: mrichman

mrichman — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 01:14:58 +0000

Issues or questions about Gitosis should be directed here: https://github.com/res0nat0r/g...

By: tenach

tenach — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 04:19:00 +0000

I am getting a traceback error and am not sure what to do with it: http://tlms.pastebin.com/pQi0v... What would your suggestions be? I have triple-checked to make sure I am following everything properly.

Thank you much for your help.

By: Jdoerring

Jdoerring — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 08:52:35 +0000

I posed this on the scie.nti.st article but they have a comment list a mile long so here it is again.

I'd like to add on one thing that I ran into when installing Git and Gitosis on my Ubuntu 10.10 server which I installed with encrypted home directories.

When I was configuring my server for SSH, I changed my sshd_config to include this entry:
AuthorizedKeysFile /etc/.ssh/%u/authorized_keys

From this you can see that I created a /etc/.ssh directory and a sub directory for each user containing the file authorized_keys. Also, I made the user the owner of their respective folder.

Gitosis uses a post-update hook to update the git user's authorized_keys file to include each of the public keys from the gitosis-admin/keydir. The problem was that the default location that gitosis expected the authorized_keys file to be in was /home/git/.ssh/ but I moved it to /etc/.ssh/git. To remedy this I had to add the following to gitosis.conf:
[gitosis]
ssh-authorized-keys-path = /etc/.ssh/git/authorized_keys

It took me quite a bit of messing around to figure this all out, I hope it will save someone else the pain.

By: Paz

Paz — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 04:54:18 +0000

Just tried 3 other tutorials that were not clear on copying my public key from client to server and wasted 30mins. Yours got me there in 2 mins. thanks.

By: Redmine with GIT Repository Setup on Ubuntu « Ryan Alberts

Redmine with GIT Repository Setup on Ubuntu « Ryan Alberts — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 23:22:59 +0000

[...] sudo vi ../mods-enabled/proxy.conf For gitosis I used this setup page: http://www.markrichman.com/2008/06/16/installing-git-and-gitosis-on-ubuntu/ Creating users and using gitosis: [...]