More work on blog setup post

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diff --git a/content/posts/how-this-blog-works/index.org b/content/posts/how-this-blog-works/index.org
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+++ b/content/posts/how-this-blog-works/index.org
@@ -56,7 +56,52 @@ through how I run by blog.
   org-mode markup is a bit of a second class citizen in the hugo world,
   it's pretty easy to figure out.
 
+* Prerequisites
+  The only thing that's required on the host server is =git=, although
+  you could even get away without that if you chose to host your git
+  repository elsewhere, like on github.
+
+  #+BEGIN_SRC shell
+  pkg_add git
+  #+END_SRC
+
 * Version Control
 
-  I wanted to try to keep things as simple as possible for this, while
-  remaining private.
+  I wanted to try to keep things as simple as possible for this. The
+  "origin" for the blog is simply a bare git repository in the =blog=
+  user's home directory. This blog user was also made the owner of the
+  blog document root directory.
+
+** Setting up the blog user
+   First I set up the blog user
+   #+BEGIN_SRC shell
+   useradd -m blog
+   #+END_SRC
+
+   I then placed my public SSH key in its =authorized_keys= file
+
+   #+BEGIN_SRC shell
+   mkdir -m 700 /home/blog/.ssh
+   cp /root/.ssh/authorized_keys /home/blog/.ssh/
+   chown -R blog:blog /home/blog
+   #+END_SRC
+
+   I then logged in as the blog user and initialize the bare git
+   repository.
+
+   #+BEGIN_SRC shell
+   su blog
+   cd        # cd with no arguments goes to home directory
+   git init --bare blog.git
+   #+END_SRC
+
+** Cloning the repository
+
+   Cloning the repository onto my local machine is very easy at this
+   point. As long as my private keys are in the =blog= user's
+   =authorized_keys=, git will take care of the rest.
+
+   #+BEGIN_SRC shell
+   # on my local machine
+   git clone blog@lambda.cx:blog.git
+   #+END_SRC