[SOLVED] How to add a new ssh key to Gitolite

How to add a new ssh key to Gitolite

I simply want to add a new key. So I added it in the keydir, set the permissions in the gitolite conf, committed and pushed, but nothing.

At what point does the new key get added to the .ssh authorized-keys file? Because it seems the new key never makes it in there and that's why the person using the key cannot get access...

Solution

At what point does the new key get added to the .ssh authorized-keys file?

Immediately after the push, provided your key:

is a public key (one line similar to ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAA...hFvETUVDvF2iZ)
is name after the name of the resource who will access gitolite: tom.pub

As the OP Dee confirms in the comments, the issue was in the public key filename representing the user:

the only error is bad username and i think this is because I used a '/' in the name of a group of user

Indeed, the username pattern is:

^\@?[0-9a-zA-Z][-0-9a-zA-Z._\@+]*$

No '/' allowed.