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"Git" gurus, could you please help me in something

As far as I know, Git access could be manipulated through server user/group authentication. but is there is any way that I can use another access authentication regardless the OS server authentication?

I mean like SVN, Users only defined for SVN

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You can use ssh, combined with Gitolite (an access control library in Perl, for Git): that will use the matching between ssh public key, and the username defined only for Gitolite.

See more at "How do programs like gitolite work?".

If you are using/installing Git hosting services like GitLab (ruby) or GitbLit (java), then the users can be defined in a dedicated database for those services.

In both cases, the user authentication doesn't rely on the OS.

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  • It seems very good solution, do I have to setup it on the clients machines. or just the server? – Marwa Dosoky Dec 07 '14 at 08:02
  • @MarwaDosoky only the server. – VonC Dec 07 '14 at 08:03
  • is it easy to integrate gitolite with egit of eclipse ? I don't want the developers to come scream every time they want to commit something, my main concern is how to clone a repository from eclipse with gitolite specific access configuration. while the wizard in eclipse only allows the usual ssh authentication – Marwa Dosoky Dec 07 '14 at 10:14
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    @MarwaDosoky gitolite is made for working with ssh access. As far as the developers are concerned, they simply clone a git repo using its ssh url as usual. As long as their public key has been added in the `gitolite-amin` repo (in the `keydir` folder) with the proper name, they won't see anything different. – VonC Dec 07 '14 at 10:19