Vinz Clortho

Vinz Clortho is a Ruby-based tool for managing SSH authentication when dealing with git.

Requirements

Vinz Clortho requires a .git-authors file to be present, similar in format to git-duet and git-pair. In addition to authors and email addresses, Vinz Clortho will look for a sshkey_paths entry where each pair of initials below points to the location of a private key (perhaps on a flash drive). For example:

sshkey_paths:
  jd: /Volumes/jdoe/.ssh/id_rsa
  fb: /Volumes/fbar/.ssh/id_rsa

See the .git-authors file in this repository as a full example.

Installation

gem install vinz-clortho

Usage

Run git ssh-login [committer-initials] to add the SSH key corresponding to the committer's initials. If no committer initials are included, then all available keys will be added. The key expiry is set to 12:30 PM if executed before 12:30 PM, 6:00 PM if executed after that but before 6:00 PM, or within 15 minutes if executed after 6:00 PM.

Usage: git ssh-login [options] [committer-initials]

    -h, --help                       Shows help
    -v, --version                    Returns version
        --add-to-github              Adds a public key to GitHub

You can also use git push-authenticated [args] to authenticate all existing keys for a period of 5 seconds and then push immediately. It takes the same arguments as git push (and just passes them on).