How do I push stuff to gitlab?

[Eric S. Raymond]

Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net>:
> esr at thyrsus.com said:
> > You gave GitLab an ssh public key; git uses your ssh private key.  This
> > allows you to be authenticated to GitLab.  You're a member of the NTPsec
> > project with the role "Developer", so you can push to any unprotected
> > branch. The repository is not world-writable. 
> 
> That would make sense if GitLab knew who I was.  Why am I me as compared to 
> you or somebody who doesn't even have an account?
> 
> How does it translate my local login name to a GitLab name?  A brute force 
> search of everybody with write access seems like a bad idea if there might be 
> a large project and I'm sure somebody will come up with one.
> 
> The public key has a user at host at the end.  I don't know if the private key 
> has something similar.  Mine is encrypted.  Assuming that gets to the wire, 
> then a hash table lookup would do it.

The only identifying piece of info it has about you when you push is
your ssh public key - git developer access works through an ssh
tunnel.  Therefore, it must be doing something like that brute-force
check.

You're right, it would be interesting to know more about how this works.
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		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>