This is a complete transcript of a full gitolite install, from scratch, using brand new userids ("sita" on the client, "git" on the server). Please note that you can use existing userids also, it is not necessary to use dedicated user IDs for this. Also, you don't have to use some other server for all this, both server and client can be "localhost" if you like.
Please note that this entire transcript can be summarised as:
- create users on client and server (optional)
- get pubkey access to server from client (
ssh-copy-idor manual eqvt) - run one command on client (
gl-easy-install)
...and only that last step is actually gitolite. In fact, the bulk of the transcript is non-gitolite stuff :)
Please also note that this method will setup everything on the server, but you have to run it on your workstation, NOT on the server!
In this document:
- create userids on server and client (optional)
- get pubkey access from client to server
- get gitolite source
- install gitolite
- examine what you have
Client side: add user, give him a password
sita-lt:~ # useradd sita
sita-lt:~ # passwd sita
Changing password for user sita.
New UNIX password:
Retype new UNIX password:
passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully.
Server side: (log on to server, then) add user, give it a password
sita-lt:~ # ssh sitaram@server
sitaram@server's password:
Last login: Fri Dec 18 20:25:06 2009
-bash-3.2$ su -
Password:
sita-sv:~ # useradd git
sita-sv:~ # passwd git
Changing password for user git.
New UNIX password:
Retype new UNIX password:
passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully.
Server side: allow ssh access to "git" user
This is done by editing the sshd config file and adding "git" to the "AllowUsers" list (the grep command is just confirming the change we made, because I'm not showing the actual "vi" session):
sita-sv:~ # vim /etc/ssh/sshd_config
sita-sv:~ # grep -i allowusers /etc/ssh/sshd_config
AllowUsers sitaram git
sita-sv:~ # service sshd restart
Stopping sshd: [ OK ]
Starting sshd: [ OK ]
This involves creating a keypair for yourself (using ssh-keygen), and
copying the public part of that keypair to the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file
on the server (using ssh-copy-id, if you're on Linux, or the manual method
described in the ssh-copy-id section in doc/3-faq-tips-etc.mkd).
sita-lt:~ $ su - sita
Password:
sita@sita-lt:~ $ ssh-keygen
Generating public/private rsa key pair.
Enter file in which to save the key (/home/sita/.ssh/id_rsa):
Created directory '/home/sita/.ssh'.
Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase):
Enter same passphrase again:
Your identification has been saved in /home/sita/.ssh/id_rsa.
Your public key has been saved in /home/sita/.ssh/id_rsa.pub.
The key fingerprint is:
8a:e0:60:1b:04:58:68:50:a4:d7:d0:3a:a5:2d:bf:0a sita@sita-lt.atc.tcs.com
The key's randomart image is:
+--[ RSA 2048]----+
|===. |
|+o oo |
|o..=. |
|..= . |
|.o.+ S |
|.oo... . |
|E.. ... |
| . . |
| .. |
+-----------------+
sita@sita-lt:~ $ ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa git@server
git@server's password:
/usr/bin/xauth: creating new authority file /home/git/.Xauthority
Now try logging into the machine, with "ssh 'git@server'", and check in:
.ssh/authorized_keys
to make sure we haven't added extra keys that you weren't expecting.
Double check to make sure you can log on to git@server without a password:
sita@sita-lt:~ $ ssh git@server pwd
/home/git
sita@sita-lt:~ $ git clone git://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite gitolite-source
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/sita/gitolite-source/.git/
remote: Counting objects: 1157, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (584/584), done.
remote: Total 1157 (delta 756), reused 912 (delta 562)
Receiving objects: 100% (1157/1157), 270.08 KiB | 61 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (756/756), done.
Note that gitolite is installed from the client. The easy-install script
runs on the client but installs gitolite on the server!
sita@sita-lt:~ $ cd gitolite-source/src
This is the only gitolite specific command in a typical
install sequence. Run it without any arguments to see a usage
message. Run it without the -q to get a more verbose, pause-at-every-step,
install mode that allows you to change the defaults etc.
sita@sita-lt:src $ ./gl-easy-install -q git server sitaram
you are upgrading (or installing first-time) to v0.95-38-gb0ce84d
setting up keypair...
Generating public/private rsa key pair.
Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase):
Enter same passphrase again:
Your identification has been saved in /home/sita/.ssh/sitaram.
Your public key has been saved in /home/sita/.ssh/sitaram.pub.
The key fingerprint is:
2a:8e:88:42:36:7e:71:e8:cc:ff:4c:54:64:8e:cf:19 sita@sita-lt.atc.tcs.com
The key's randomart image is:
+--[ RSA 2048]----+
| o |
| = |
| . E |
| + o |
| . .S+ |
| + o ... |
|+ = + .. |
|oo B .o |
|+ o o..o |
+-----------------+
creating gitolite para in ~/.ssh/config...
finding/creating gitolite rc...
installing/upgrading...
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/git/repositories/gitolite-admin.git/
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/git/repositories/testing.git/
Pseudo-terminal will not be allocated because stdin is not a terminal.
fatal: No HEAD commit to compare with (yet)
[master (root-commit) 2f40d4b] start
2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 conf/gitolite.conf
create mode 100644 keydir/sitaram.pub
cloning gitolite-admin repo...
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/sita/gitolite-admin/.git/
remote: Counting objects: 6, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (4/4), done.
remote: Total 6 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
Receiving objects: 100% (6/6), done.
---------------------------------------------------------------
done!
Reminder:
*Your* URL for cloning any repo on this server will be
gitolite:reponame.git
*Other* users you set up will have to use
git@server:reponame.git
If this is your first time installing gitolite, please also:
tail -31 ./gl-easy-install
for next steps.
sita@sita-lt:src $ cd ~/gitolite-admin/
sita@sita-lt:gitolite-admin $ git --no-pager log --stat
commit 2f40d4bb80d424dc39aae5d0973f8c1b2e395666
Author: git <git@sita-lt.atc.tcs.com>
Date: Thu Dec 24 21:39:15 2009 +0530
start
conf/gitolite.conf | 12 ++++++++++++
keydir/sitaram.pub | 1 +
2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
And that's really all. Add keys to keydir here, edit conf/gitolite.conf as
needed, then add, commit, and push the changes to the server. Try out that
tail -31 ./gl-easy-install too :)