Debian: Installing gitolite

Tried setting up gitolite in Debian following my earlier guide with CentOS, but it didn't work out as well because there were a few steps missing (Debian doesn't create the gitolite user automatically). These are the modified steps:

1. Install gitolite:

   sudo apt-get install git git-core python-setuptools gitolite

2. Add the gitolite user (this is the user that will host the git repositories and control access):
   

   sudo useradd gitolite

3. As the user who will be administrating the set-up (i.e. someone OTHER than the gitolite user), create a set of ssh keys and move them to where the gitolite user can access them:
   

   ssh-keygencp ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub /tmp/admin.pub

4. Switch to the gitolite user:
   

   sudo su - gitolite

5. Run the set-up command:
   

   gl-setup /tmp/admin.pub

6. As the user who will be administrating the set-up, clone the repository
   

   git clone gitolite@[ip address]:gitolite-admin.git

You can now add in other keys and set up the configuration of gitolite.

References:

• http://gitolite.com/gitolite/install.html
• http://tipstricks.itmatrix.eu/?p=1693