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I have a server with gitolite already set up.

I manage the gitolite using a remote machine that has the clone of the gitolite admin.

i.e, In remote machine, I did 

git clone git@gitserveraddr:gitolite-admin.git

and manage the users and repos from there.

Now, we would like to have another person in different machine to be able to be the "admin" too. How can I do this?

I tried to add his rsa key into the /home/git/ in the gitserver and run gitolite setup -pk Git-Admin.pub his-key.pub where Git-Admin.pub is the original admin's computer rsa key. and his-key.pub is the new admin

It did not work. The original admin is still fine, but the new admin is not working (cannot do git clone git@gitserveraddr:gitolite-admin.git)

Thanks

electro
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  • Perhaps you want to add multiple keys to the same admin account? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5733699/gitolite-one-user-many-keys-different-usernames – Tuan Anh Hoang-Vu Jun 05 '15 at 01:42

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You simply need to modify the conf/gitolite.conf file in order to add a new username as having the right (RW+) to read/write to that repo.

repo gitolite-admin
   RW+ = alice <newAdmin>

You would push as well a new keydir/<newAdmin.pub>, allowing newAdmin to be able to clone/pull/push gitolite-admin.

No need for any "setup".
No need to add multiple keys for the same admin account: it is best to clearly identify and separate each admin account, with their own respective set of ssh public/private keys that each account is in charge of managing (and of keeping their private ssh keys... private).

VonC
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