Tag archives: github

octoDNS and Route53

Just a quick and simple post. If you want to use octoDNS with Amazon's Route53, you can use the following permisson policy to restrict the user to only what octoDNS needs to do its job.

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "route53:ChangeResourceRecordSets",
                "route53:CreateHostedZone",
                "route53:ListHealthChecks",
                "route53:ListHostedZones",
                "route53:ListHostedZonesByName",
                "route53:ListResourceRecordSets"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        }
    ]
}

Store your git https passwords in your OS X Keychain

Around this time last year git added a "smart" HTTP transport that is faster than the old HTTP transport (and in some cases faster than SSH too). And a few months later GitHub added support for this new HTTP transport and made it the default selected url for repositories (that you aren't a contributor for).

There aren't any major advantages using https over ssh to access your GitHub repositories, it's just more simple to use your username/password instead of adding your ssh key. The only other advantages is that it's easier to set up HTTP proxy for git (git config --global http.proxy proxy:8080 vs ssh config) and being able to use more than one GitHub account (which you shouldn't since anyone can add you as a contributor to a project).

One major disadvantage is that it asks you for your username/password each time you interact with your remote repository (clone, pull, push, etc). To solve this, I decided to write a program that stores your username and/or password in your keychain so git will ask once for you username/password and retrieve it later so you don't have to type it again. If you only want the program, skip to it.

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