[nycbug-talk] a righteous ssh hack, or how to do fine grained auth with only one login

Isaac Levy ike at blackskyresearch.net
Tue Oct 4 09:46:42 EDT 2011


On Oct 3, 2011, at 6:28 PM, Marc Spitzer wrote:

> http://sitaramc.github.com/gitolite/doc/gitolite-and-ssh.html
> 
> how does gitolite use all this ssh magic?
> 
> These are two different questions you ought to be having by now:
> 
>    how does it distinguish between me and someone else, since we're
> all logging in as the same remote user "git"
>    how does it restrict what I can do within a repository
> 
> its a cool hack go read

Ah, the old a clown car as model for user privilege separation.

Rocket-
.ike





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