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copied!<p>I want to give a detailed answer to this question because I just had to use a gitosis-admin local clone to get somebody else's installation working properly. I think other users might come here looking for help figuring out <strong>what to do if you need to edit gitosis-admin but ONLY have local root access to the filesystem on which the repos live.</strong> If that's how you got here, your intuition is good in that you <em>can</em> clone and edit the gitosis-admin repository locally. To make everything work, though, you have to be careful about how you do it. Here are the steps:</p> <p>Preconditions:</p> <ul> <li>You are root.</li> <li>You want to give <code>$USER</code> gitosis-admin access; <code>$USER</code> is a valid user.</li> <li>The gitosis-admin repository lives at <code>$PATH</code>. (On Ubuntu this is typically <code>/srv/gitosis/repositories/gitosis-admin.git</code>)</li> <li><code>$PATH</code> is owned by user "gitosis".</li> </ul> <p>Steps:</p> <ol> <li>If they don't already have one, generate a key pair for the user you want to give gitosis-admin access to. <br> <code>sudo -H -u $USER ssh-keygen</code></li> <li>Make a local clone of the gitosis-admin repo as the gitosis user. <br> <code>sudo -H -u gitosis git clone $PATH</code></li> <li>Add the new public key. <br> <code>sudo -H -u gitosis cp ~$USER/.ssh/id_rsa.pub ./gitosis-admin/keydir/$USER.pub</code></li> <li>Edit the gitosis-admin conf as necessary. <br> <code>sudo -H -u gitosis nano ./gitosis-admin/gitosis.conf</code></li> <li>Commit as the gitosis user. <br> <code>sudo -H -u gitosis git commit -am "Adding $USER" ./gitosis-admin</code></li> <li>Push as the gitosis user. <br> <code>sudo -H -u gitosis git push ./gitosis-admin</code></li> <li>Run the post-update hooks as the gitosis user. <br> <code>sudo -H -u gitosis GIT_DIR=$PATH $PATH/hooks/post-update</code></li> </ol>

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