Re: git + ssh + key authentication feature-request

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

Correct modulo s/git-daemon/git-shell/.

D'oh!  Finger trouble!

Now, you brought up an interesting way to do this without using
unix uid.  Some sshd installations do not honour environment=
settings, but that problem aside, you could define a token, say
GIT_USER, with different value on each line in the shared
authorized_keys file so that you can distinguish incoming
developers that share the same "home directory", and change the
example hook Carl gave us to use that token instead of the unix
user identity.  I'd imagine that would work quite well.

Quite possibly.

Don't give me the credit here, by the way.  I completely stole this
whole idea from the Subversion documentation: see `SSH configuration
tricks' in 

  http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.serverconfig.svnserve.html

at the bottom.

Oh, any my mistake: the `environment...' options go at the beginning of
an authorized_keys line, not at the end.

It's so time I went to sleep.

-- [mdw]