ssh support

[Thomas De Schampheleire]

Hi Mike,

On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 6:29 PM, Michael V. DePalatis <mike at depalatis.net> wrote:
> I have been wondering about ssh support in Kallithea. From what I can
> tell, at this point, there is no option either in the web admin
> interface or in the ini file to configure ssh clone URLs. I'm willing to
> work on this since I prefer to use ssh over https given that ssh keys
> are easier for me to deal with than https authentication (mainly since I
> use git for most of my personal projects, which has no equivalent to the
> Mercurial keyring extension as far as I can tell).
>
> What follows is a proposed (two step!) roadmap for ssh support.
>
> * Add option for ssh clone URLs.
>
> For small scale deployments, this is already enough. For example, my use
> cases involve:
>
> (1) A central server for hosting repositories for a small research group
> (~10 users).
> (2) A server for hosting personal/private repositories.
>
> In each case, it is sufficient to manually copy over public keys to a
> central authorized_keys file.
>
> * Add support for uploading ssh keys from the web interface.
>
> This is obviously more ideal since it only requires using the web
> interface to upload keys. It also would require a bit more knowledge of
> Pylons (and web development in general) than I currently have.
>
> One outstanding question I have is how to properly deal with access
> control. For the small scale deployments I am currently using, it is not
> important to restrict upload rights to certain users. If that is
> important, though, I would think one would need to use something like
> gitolite (and whatever the hg equivalent is) to properly manage this,
> which necessarily adds two extra dependencies (assuming support of both
> git and Mercurial).
>
> Thoughts?

Have a look at following pull request adding SSH support:
https://bitbucket.org/conservancy/kallithea/pull-request/98/unified-ssh-based-authentication-with

It would be great if you could test it and report your feedback!

Thanks,
Thomas