add a user that can only access the server resources in their home directory through git over http

to run:

curl https://raw.github.com/rhildred/addGitUser/master/addGitUser | bash -s

to create another repository under the same account:

curl https://raw.github.com/rhildred/addGitUser/master/addRepo | bash -s repositoryName

started with:

an account set up under cpanel that I can ssh to, mod_auth_digest installed and activated

in detail:

• make basic directories git and rails_apps ... also a tmp1 directory that we will delete

• make the bare first repo

• clone working copy in to tmp1

• write the post-receive hook

• make the .htaccess with the security and the rewrite rule

• make the .htaccess to run our script

• make our script

• set the rest of the userdir permissions

• commit everything and check out into the rails_apps work tree

• link in to work tree

• clean up tmp1 directory