Commit 4a85d66f authored by Achilleas Pipinellis's avatar Achilleas Pipinellis

Merge branch 'docs/add-path-to-authorized_keys-file' into 'master'

Geo - Add path to authorized_keys file

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!62964
parents d9619329 becea8d1
......@@ -34,8 +34,15 @@ feature for CentOS 6, follow [the instructions on how to build and install a cus
## Fast lookup is required for Geo **(PREMIUM)**
By default, GitLab manages an `authorized_keys` file, which contains all the
public SSH keys for users allowed to access GitLab. However, to maintain a
By default, GitLab manages an `authorized_keys` file that is located in the
`git` user's home directory. For most installations, this will be located under
`/var/opt/gitlab/.ssh/authorized_keys`, but you can use the following command to locate the `authorized_keys` on your system.:
```shell
getent passwd git | cut -d: -f6 | awk '{print $1"/.ssh/authorized_keys"}'
```
The `authorized_keys` file contains all the public SSH keys for users allowed to access GitLab. However, to maintain a
single source of truth, [Geo](../geo/index.md) needs to be configured to perform SSH fingerprint
lookups via database lookup.
......@@ -73,7 +80,7 @@ sudo service sshd reload
```
Confirm that SSH is working by commenting out your user's key in the `authorized_keys`
(start the line with a `#` to comment it), and attempting to pull a repository.
file (start the line with a `#` to comment it), and attempting to pull a repository.
A successful pull would mean that GitLab was able to find the key in the database,
since it is not present in the file anymore.
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