Need help on bazaar..

[Eugene Wee]

Hi,

On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Tata Dano <dano at i360connect.com> wrote:
> I already got some resource how to generate rsa keys on Windows machines
> since most of our co-workers are working on it.

I am not sure what you found, but I use PuTTY:
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

However, if I am not wrong, private keys generated on PuTTY (using
PuTTYgen) can be password protected, but exporting them to a non-PuTTY
format loses password protection. If password protection of the
private key is important to you, you could use ssh-keygen on Linux to
generate the keys, then import them for use on PuTTY. Of course, if
you are only ever going to use PuTTY, then this is just unnecessary
work.

> I also do some research on
> "contrib/bzr_access" but unable to point it directly. Can you help me
> provide the link how to set this up? And, is it applicable also to run it on
> CentOS machines?

You can find contrib/bzr_access in the source code available from
bazaar-vcs.org:
http://bazaar-vcs.org/SourceDownloads
It is a Python script that you should be able to run if you are able
to run Bazaar itself, thus it should work on CentOS.

The script comes with documentation. If you are as clueless as me, you
might want to note that the restricted access comes from the use of
the command option in the .ssh/authorized_keys file for the user
account on your server, and the usernames in the bzr_access.conf file
should correspond to the usernames specified in the command option
strings in .ssh/authorized_keys. The protocol used is bzr+ssh, but the
paths are relative to the directory specified for the given user in
.ssh/authorized_keys. For example, if the entry for alice specifies
/home/bzr/repo1 as the directory, then to branch /home/bzr/repo1/trunk
alice will run:
bzr branch bzr+ssh://bzr@example.com/trunk

Regards,
Eugene