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I've set up a gitolite installation on OpenWrt-18.06.04 according to this guide: https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/services/gitolite

Step 9 of the "actual install" suggests removing the RSA-key from /srv/git/.ssh/authorized_keys

If I do so, I cannot connect over shh git@openWRT at all. If I leave the key in there I can connect, but it results in a normal ssh session, no gitolite (The key of my admin-gitolite user is the same as the openwrt admin rsa key)

echo normal access

returns

normal access

What am I missing?

goaran
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I don't know anything about openwrt, but gitolite needs its own key; it can't use the same one that you use for normal shell access.

There are ways around that, but you need to set them up; see https://gitolite.com/gitolite/sts.html#giving-shell-access-to-gitolite-users for how.

Even so, I'd be wary of doing that to, say, a remote VPS, if that key is my only access to the box. Not that there's any known problem with that method, just playing safe. However, for a local box (or router) it should be fine.