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auth, doc/3: print useful information when no command given

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@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ In this document:
* better logging
* one user, many keys
* support for git installed outside default PATH
* who am I?
* what repos do I have access to?
* other cool things
* "personal" branches
* design choices
@ -348,24 +348,35 @@ attempting to run git stuff.
Very easy, very simple, and completely transparent to the users :-)
#### who am I?
<a name="myrights"></a>
As a developer, I send a file called `id_rsa.pub` to the gitolite admin. He
would rename it to "sitaram.pub" and put it in the key directory. Then he'd
add "sitaram" to the config file for the repos which I have access to.
#### what repos do I have access to?
But he could have called me "foobar" instead of "sitaram" -- as long as he
uses it consistently, it'll all work the same and look the same to me, because
the public key is all that matters.
Sometimes there are too many repos, maybe even named similarly, or with the
potential for typos, confusion about hyphens/underscores or upper/lower case,
etc. You'd just like a simple way to know what repos you have access to.
So do I have no reason to know what the admin named me? Well -- maybe (see
next section for one possible use). Anyway how do I find out?
Easy! Just use ssh and try to log in as if you were attempting to get a
shell:
In gitolite, it's simple: just ask nicely :-)
$ ssh git@my.gitolite.server
$ ssh gitolite
PTY allocation request failed on channel 0
no SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND? I'm not a shell, sitaram!
hello sitaram, the gitolite version here is v0.6-17-g94ed189
you have the following permissions:
R W Anu-WSD
R ROtest
R W SecureBrowse
R W entrans
R W git-notes
R W gitolite
R W gitolite-admin
R W indic_web_input
R W proxy
R W vkc
Note that until this version, we used to put out an ugly `need
SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND` error, just like gitosis used to. All we did is put
that code path to better use :-)
### other cool things