Re: [gentoo-dev] [PSA] If you ssh interactively to git.gentoo.org (somehow) let me know.

[Alec Warner]

A bit late, but this change is now live. Please contact me if anything has
broken.

-A

On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 10:34 AM Alec Warner <antarus@g.o> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 7:04 AM Kent Fredric <kentnl@g.o> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 27 Apr 2020 09:43:44 -0400
>> Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o> wrote:
>>
>> > He was replying to me. Your master connection will continue to work
>> > just fine, as I said in my previous message.
>>
>> I must have lost something in grammar, because no matter how many times I
>> read:
>>
>> > If you are authenticating that master connection as the "git" user, I
>> > suspect it will not affect you. If you are using it to push to
>> > gentoo.git, that is almost certainly the case.
>>
>> I interpret that as:
>>
>> - Anonymous fetch is fine
>> - Authorised Push will fail
>>
>
> "If you are authenticating the master connection as the 'git' user then
> this change will not affect you.
> "If you are using controlmaster to push to git.gentoo.org, then you are
> definitely authenticating as user=git because there is no other way to
> commit to ::gentoo."
>
>
>>
>> But I guess my mistake is in that we don't push with "user@git ...", we
>> push with "git@ ... ", and the SSH key is the gate keeper of "push will
>> work", not the UID.
>>
>> Right?
>>
>
> A working ssh key for user=git is a necessary (but not sufficient)
> component of a successful git push.
>
>
>>
>> So assuming you're using git@ for fetch *and* push, *then* it will
>> continue to work.
>>
>> Right?
>>
>
> Correct.
>
>
>>
>> Forgive me for any potential idiocy, language and remembering the
>> details of everything all the time is hard.
>>
>
> I don't actually expect people to know these details.
>