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Virtual user?

Asked by Manatsawin Hanmongkolchai

Can bzr do authentication with anything other than UNIX users? I don't want to create every real user for every commiter.

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ViktorNagy (viktor-nagy) said : 		#1

Sure, you can use the smart protocol with Apache as well, just set up Basic Auth (or whatever else you like) to access the wsgi script that serves bazaar.

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Best John A Meinel (jameinel) said : 		#2

You can also use a single ssh user, but use different auth keys for each actual user.

For example, you could have a "bzr" user, and people would connect as:
 bzr+ssh://bzr@host/path/to/branch

And each would have their own ssh key. And then the public keys would just be added to ~bzr/.ssh/authorized_keys

You can also look at the contrib/bzr_access script[1], which describes ways to set up a little bit of per-key access control. It isn't fine-grained, but you can at least setup readonly versus read-write.

[1] http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~bzr/bzr/trunk/annotate/3847?file_id=bzr_access-20071210163004-c9lb1renhra2ncg0-1

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Manatsawin Hanmongkolchai (whs) said : 		#3

Thanks John A Meinel, that solved my question.