1. Download the source tree of gitolite which is patched by Jinag Xin, a advanced git contributer in china.

1. git clone git://github.com/ossxp-com/gitolite.git 

1. sudo adduser --system --shell /bin/bash --gecos 'git version control' --group --disabled-password --home /home/gitolite gitolite

3. Back to the client and create a key pairs

1. cd ~/.ssh  
2. ssh-keygen -t rsa -f id_rsa_gitolite  
3. cd ~

1. scp ~/.ssh/id_rsa_gitolite.pub mygitbox

1. ssh mygitbox

1. sudo cp id_rsa_gitolite.pub /home/gitolite  
2. sudo chown gitolite:gitolite /home/gitolite/id_rsa_gitolite.pub 

1. sudo su - gitolite

1. mkdir .ssh  
2. chmod 700 .ssh  
3. cat id_rsa_gitolite.pub >> .ssh/authorized_keys  
4. chmod 600 .ssh/authorized_keys  
5. rm id_rsa_gitolite.pub

If you are using debian, above commands can be replaced by "ssh-copy-id gitolite@server"

7. Remove the line PublickeyAuthentication "no" in /etc/ssh/ssh_config on client machine

8. Modify ~/.ssh/config

1. Host mygitbox  
2.     User gitolite  
3.     Hostname 10.42.43.13  
4.     Port 22  
5.     PreferredAuthentications publickey  
6.     IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa_gitolite

9. Installation procedure on client machine

1. cd gitolite/src  
2. ./gl-easy-install gitolite mygitbox gitadmin

.ssh/authorized_keys will rename to old_authkeys and re-generate authorized_keys

New ~/.ssh/config shows: