# Customize the gitolite configuration

Pagure provides a mechanism to allow customizing the creation and compilation of the configuration file of gitolite.

To customize the gitolite configuration file, we invite you to look at the sources of the module pagure.lib.git_auth.

As you can see it defines the following class:

    class GitAuthHelper(object):

        __metaclass__ = abc.ABCMeta

        @staticmethod
        @abc.abstractmethod
        def generate_acls():
            pass

        @classmethod
        @abc.abstractmethod
        def remove_acls(self, session, project):
            pass

This will be the class you will have to inherit from in order to inject your own code. You will then declare an entry point in your setup.py following this template:

    entry_points="""
    [pagure.git_auth.helpers]
    my_git_auth = my_pagure.my_module:MyGitAuthTestHelper
    """

Then you can adjust pagure’s configuration file to say:

    GITOLITE_BACKEND = 'my_git_auth'