(Tortoisegit + Gitosis + msysgit) configuring - Adding windows users and creating repo

Cont. from previous post
Now you are ready to add users to the server.
It is not that much hard to add ubuntu users.
You just have to install git-core and by adding keys to the key directory. You can add users. If you are a windows user you have to do some installations. There are few ways to access repositories as windows user.

Clients using who use command prompt

First you should download msysgit from here and run the exe. Assume you downloaded the full version.

Give the path as your wish.
To run git commands at anywhere from your command prompt, define a path variable on environment variables Right Click on My Computer => Properties => Advanced => Environemnt Variables => Edit or New give the variable name as "PATH", and variable value "C:\msysgit\msysgit\bin", the bin folder of the msysgit installed. And add the "C:\msysgit\msysgit\mingw\bin" path also, that means, variable value will looks like, "C:\msysgit\msysgit\bin;C:\msysgit\msysgit\mingw\bin"

Then go to start => run => cmd type git and press enter. You will get result like,

Now you are ready to use git.

Adding user

First of all you have to create a key pair for your self. Get the command prompt and navigate to the msysgit folder to create .ssh directory.

C:\msysgit\msysgit\> mkdir .ssh

You are not allowed to create folders beginning with "." by right click => New => folder. So that it should be created this way.

Now navigate into the .ssh folder. We are going to create key pair.

C:\msysgit\msysgit\.ssh> ssh-keygen 

give id_rsa for the key name.
Following result will be shown.

C:\msysgit\msysgit\.ssh>ssh-keygen
Generating public/private rsa key pair.
Enter file in which to save the key (//.ssh/id_rsa): id_rsa
Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase):
Enter same passphrase again:
Your identification has been saved in id_rsa.
Your public key has been saved in id_rsa.pub.
The key fingerprint is:
92:0c:83:16:16:14:04:51:30:42:da:5d:df:fd:fb:15 Janaka@XPWINDOWS7

Now you need to transfer the public key to the server where your gitosis administrator belongs. With previous posts, you might remember my username at version control is janaka. Following command will carry your key to that server's keydir directory.On my command prompt,

C:\msysgit\msysgit\.ssh>scp id_rsa.pub janaka@192.168.4.90:gitosis-admin/keydir/gituser1.pub

(Assume 192.168.4.90 is the server that installed gitosis) using this command or anyhow you can copy your key to keydir/ directory.
Don't change the names of the public and private keys of the(id_rsa,id_rsa.pub) on your local machine. Keep it as it is on .ssh folder.
Now the administrators part,
Admin should allow this key to copy to server and rename it. When renaming, keep remember to give the same name that you are planing to add in .conf file. If new user is gituser1, then public key should be renamed to gituser1.pub on server.
On the server, admin should enter the this user into a user list of gitosis.conf file. You can see how to create new repository and work groups in this link.
On gitosis.conf,

[group myteam]
members = gituser1
writable = my_current_project

member should be the name of the added public key(without .pub) and writable is the repository which are writable by this team. Group name is myteam.
Now administrator should add these key file and changed gitosis.conf file and push it to git user. Actually administrator just cloning the gitosis-admin part from the "git" user and after changes pushing it back. Here are the commands for admin,

janaka@versioncontrol~$ git clone git@192.168.4.90:gitosis-admin
janaka@versioncontrol~$ cd gitosis-admin
janaka@versioncontrol~/gitosis-admin $ git add keydir/gituser1.pub
janaka@versioncontrol~/gitosis-admin $ git add gitosis.conf
janaka@versioncontrol~/gitosis-admin $ git commit -a -m "Added gituser1 as a new user"
janaka@versioncontrol~/gitosis-admin $ git push

Now on the client side (gituser1) can check whether he had successfully added. On command prompt he can try to add a clone.

 
C:\MyFolder> git clone git@192.168.4.90:my_current_project

If it imported my_current_project folder without asking any password for git user it is successfully worked. Issued can be occured,

• Ask a password for git user- your keys are not matching recreate the key pairs and install keys accurately.


• Giving no permissions error- You have not been added successfully for that group on gitosis.conf file. Reedit the conf file.

Widows clients using Gitosis

You can find post regarding this from here

Creating new repository and adding permission groups

will be discussed here

Setting up Gitosis(version control system) on Linux server and adding windows clients

Git is a kind of a version control system which allows users to keep their project information safely in repositories. In this case, I will be using Gitosis for this setup, Gitosis is a tool written for Git that helps in the setup of secure access controlled repositories. It will manage multiple repositories under one user account on the host machine. Using SSH keys to identify users, your repositories will be securely accessed and controlled. One large advantage to Gitosis is that your users will not need shell accounts on the machine to access repositories, they will however speak to a singular account what will not allow arbitrary commands. Now let's see how gitosis can install in to your Ubuntu server.

Installing Gitosis

First of all you should have installed Git.

sudo apt-get install git-core

By cloning the gitosis directory from "eagain.net" you will get the gitosis directory on your home page. Follow these lines to do it,

   cd ~/
   git clone git://eagain.net/gitosis.git

Now you better move that folder to /usr/local

   sudo mv gitosis/ /usr/local

Now go to Gitosis folder.

   cd /usr/local/gitosis/

If you haven't installed python in your computer get it installed.

   sudo apt-get install python-setuptools

Then, you can run the setup.py file which is in this directory.

   sudo python setup.py install

Now you are successfully installed Gitosis on your Linux server.
Next, you have to create user called "git". "git" is the repositories holding real user. It creates in a way that users to identify through ssh-keys. Anyone can't login through entering password.

 sudo adduser \
    --system \
    --shell /bin/sh \
    --gecos 'git version control' \
    --group \
    --disabled-password \
    --home /home/git \
    git  

gitosis-admin

Now let's initialize the gitosis and begin with adding an administrator to git repository. As a convention we used to create administrator account on the same server/computer. Because administrator has the super power of creating new repository, users and so on.
To identify administrator, you need to create create ssh key and initialize gitosis with that key. So you will add as the administrator.(janaka is the user, versioncontrol is the name of the linux server)

janaka@versioncontrol~$ ssh-keygen -t rsa

Keep blank for the parse phrase of the key. Found this generated key pair at /home/janaka/.ssh/ as id_rsa(private key) and id_rsa.pub(public key).
Since janaka@versioncontrol wants to the admin and versioncontrol is the git server itself. You can directly initialize with this key.

sudo -H -u git gitosis-init < /home/janaka/.ssh/id_rsa.pub 

If your admin wants to be another user, generate this kind of key pair and copy it some where at versioncontrol(i.e. /tmp/id_rsa.pub). In this case,

sudo -H -u git gitosis-init < /tmp/id_rsa.pub 

If you are success then it will give,

Initialized empty Git repository in ./
Initialized empty Git repository in ./

Congratz, Now you are the gitosis-admin....!!!!
Now you need to make executable the post-update hook. Run following command.

sudo chmod 755 /home/git/repositories/gitosis-admin.git/hooks/post-update

Its ready to take your admin clone..............

git clone git@YOUR_SERVER_HOSTNAME:gitosis-admin.git

In my case YOUR_SERVER_NAME is "localhost". If you (admin) from another host, give the ip of the linux server/machine(versioncontrol).
Now have go to cloned gitosis-admin directory.

janaka@versioncontrol~$ cd gitosis-admin 

Have a look at the list,
You will found "gitosis.conf" file and "keydir" directory.
Have a look at the gitosis.conf file,

vi gitosis.conf

 [gitosis]                  

[group gitosis-admin]
writable = gitosis-admin
members = janaka@versioncontrol

Now lets see how to add users and creating new repositories.
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Adding Windows users to the gitosis and Many more