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webapp: When setting up a ssh remote, record it using initremote, so that it can be easily enabled elsewhere.

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This is the capstone in making the webapp remember ssh remotes
so they can be easily enabled in other clones of the repository.

Currently, the user will need to enter a password to enable the ssh remote,
but everything else is filled in automatically.

This commit was sponsored by Peter Lloyd.
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Joey Hess 2014-05-22 14:53:00 -04:00
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@ -7,15 +7,26 @@ Enabling such a special remote would just make a regular git remote, so
there would be no need to implement the methods to get/put data. (Although
it might need to provide stubs to appease the compiler.)
> Above is done. The command line interface in initremote and enableremote
> is not too easy or perhaps useful, but it works great in the webapp.
> --[[Joey]]
It could optionally embed the ssh private key into the git-annex branch as
a credential, for when you want anyone who has access to the git repo to be
able to use the (locked-down) git-annex-shell on that server.
> Leaving this todo open for this ssh private key embedcreds part.
> I think it makes sense to do, but it it probably not too easy.
> ([[webapp_ssh_setup_should_work_with_locked_down_git-annex-shell_account]]
> needs to be fixed first). --[[Joey]]
[[!meta title="remember ssh remote including optionally ssh key"]]
----
I am on the fence about whether this would be useful, and would appreciate
use cases.
---
One use case I was thinking about was a LAN with a central server, with a
shared account with a git-annex repository on it. But then I realized this
wouldn't really help set up git-annex in that situation, most of the time,
@ -28,3 +39,6 @@ that is unncessarily round-about most of the time.)
It might help in a more complex situation, where the LAN is not the whole
network an a client might come onto the LAN already knowing about the
central server there. --[[Joey]]
A very compelling use case is switching from XMPP to a ssh server,
and wanting to make it easy for users. --[[Joey]]