On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Johannes Ernst <jer...@cldstr.com> wrote:
> Presumably you could run multiple sshd's at either multiple IP addresses
> assigned to the same machine, or at different ports. That doesn't need
> chroots, but it's still very messy ...

Well, the chroots would be primarily for splitting out the "git" user,
so that I can have a unique "git" UID inside each chroot, with its own
home dir, SSH keys, etc. I don't know of any other way to do that,
short of full OS virtualization.

- Ken



> On Mar 18, 2013, at 12:24, Ken Dreyer <ktdre...@ktdreyer.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Johannes Ernst <jer...@cldstr.com> wrote:
>>> It may not be so easy to run more than one installation of Gitorious on the 
>>> same server.
>>
>> I've recently been looking into this exact problem, after I found out
>> to my disappointment that my server hardware doesn't support
>> virtualization.
>>
>> My thought was that it should be possible to run Gitorious and sshd
>> inside chroots on separate IPs. It's not a pretty solution any way you
>> slice it.
>>
>> It's also interesting to me from a packaging perspective, because the
>> dependency on a "git" user means that Gitorious will also conflict
>> with any other software that needs a "git" user, like Gitolite or
>> GitLab.
>>
>> - Ken

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