I'm using Egit with Eclipse to use git and access github. Everything is working fine but one thing that I wish to omit to type id_rsa key passphrase everytime I push my commit to github.
I'm asked to enter passphrase each time I restart Eclipse and try to push.
How can I make eclipse remember passphrase so that I don't have to type manually?
Thanks
Even if ssh-add -l lists your passphrase-protected key, EGit may not honour it and still ask for passphrase.
To integrate with OS keyring on Ubuntu or Mac OS X put
export GIT_SSH=/usr/bin/ssh
to your ~/.bash_aliases or whenever applicable for your OS.
Use the ssh agent.
Add your key to the agent with ssh-add. (This will ask you for your passphrase.)
Afterwards the agent should do all the authentication. (No passphrase needed anymore.)
Details:
try to access your repository manually: cd $your_repository; git fetch -> it should ask for your passphrase
enter ssh-add -l -> it should output "The agent has no identities."
enter ssh-add -> it should ask you for your passphrase
enter ssh-add -l -> it should list one identity (the key you just added)
try to access your repository again: cd $your_repository; git fetch -> it should now work without asking for your passphrase
try to access your repository from eclipse. -> again, no passphrase should be needed.
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A novice here, please type a small instruction describes how to use a private GitHub repo in VSCode
To configure a private repo, you first need to generate a public/private RSA key pair on your dev machine to be able to establish an ssh connection to your repo instead of an HTTP connection.
Just install Git for Windows in your development environment. During installation, please make sure that you have checked the option to include git bash, as you'll need it to create this key. Once installed, right click on your Windows user folder, select on Open git bash and then just run ssh-keygen (or if you are using Linux, you can just ssh-keygen) and go through the wizard.
This step will create a hidden .ssh folder that contains your public/private RSA key pair. Navigate to that folder.
The goal here with these keys is to configure your public key on GitHub. Open your id_rsa.pub file with notepad and copy its entire content. Then go to GitHub and under your user Settings > SSH keys just add a key and paste your entire public key plus an arbitrary name.
Now restart VS Code and press CTRL+ ' (Backtick) to open PowerShell and then run:
In case you haven't cloned your repo:
git clone git#github.com:{UserName}/{RepoName}.git
To Upload changes to your repo:
git add .
git commit -m "{Name for this commit}"
git push {Repo Origin name (default = Origin)} {Branch Name (Default = Master)}
Note. {} are for reference, do not include them in your commands.
VS Code has built-in support for Source Control, so if it is configured, VS Code will automatically detect changes and get them ready to commit with just a commit message and click. Also, there's a really good VS Core extension called GitLens. This can help you to 1-click push
That should do it. 😃
As of now (july 2019, not sure when this got added exactly) you can do this from within VSCode, just hit F1 in windows or ctrl+⇧+P (or ⌘+⇧+P on mac) to access the command palette of VSCode, then type or select Git: Clone and finally enter the URL of your repository, so something like https://github.com/MY_USERNAME/MY_PROJECT.git, finally choose the folder you want to use for your cloned repository (open the main folder that contains all your projects, no need to manually create a sub folder for the project itself, git will do this for you using the projects name)
To find your exact repository URL, open the projects github page and click on the green button on the top right that says "Clone or download", if you wonder if you should use HTTPS or SSH check out the github documentation
I had trouble with cloning a private repository from Github with VSCode. In my case the problem was that I followed Github docs instructions to generate SSH keys with Ed25519 algorithm and using these keys (id_ed25519.pub) with VScode and Github did not work for me.
I generated new keys with the RSA algorithm:
ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "your_email#example.com"
and after adding id_rsa.pub to my Github account settings VSCode started working with private repositories.
If Git is already installed
Copy the URL of your private repository
Go to the version control in VS Code
Click on clone repository (authentication required if not done already) and
Paste the copied URL in the edit text box as shown in the documentation.
i have same problem- but solution was simple:
Mistake was: in windows when you create a keys name should be "id_rsa" (windows cmd suggest rename yor keys).
if your key name is different simple rename private and public keys to "id_rsa" and "id_rsa.pub"
Then add keys via: ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa (edit path if files in different).
Then add id_rsa.pub key to github profile settings(copy paste of content).
Now you can work with private repositories.
#Daniel summed it up but quick read for anyone who's having issues with generating ssh/adding it to github.
As #Kennet stated use ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "your_email#example.com" hit enter through, it will default to C:Users most likely.
Copy the ida_rsa.pub generated in github go to Setting -> Deploy keys (documentation I saw was outdated) and paste it in and name it ida_rsa.pub.
Note: Make sure to select "Allow write access" otherwise your pushes will be denied
If you want multiple ssh keys, this document explains how
I keep getting a "Host Key Verification Failed" error when trying to push changes to a git controlled folder/project to Gitlab. For whatever reason, it works fine using Visual Studio for Mac, and I can login to my Gitlab account just fine via web browser.
Resolved by deleting any/all Known_hosts files in ~/.ssh/ and then executing ssh git#gitlab.com in Terminal and answering "yes" (which re-adds git#gitlab.com to known_hosts after re-creating a new known_hosts file).
I did some messing around in known_hosts which probably caused the problem.
I found that my home profile was loading as "P:\" in git bash (because of my work's IT team...).
Ensure that in git bash you have generated an ssh key using ssh-keygen and that GitLab knows about the key.
If you still have the issue, run ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no <gitlab-host> uptime to make gitlab trusted.
I re-created ssh keys in git for Windows and it worked!
In Windows, I was receiving this error from Git on MS Visual Studio Code.
I had to launch it from Git Bash to pull in my git and ssh environment configuration.
<your git bash prompt> $ Code
VS Code should Launch, and you should be able to clone a repo via ssh then.
The problem is with known_hosts file only. I already had an entry for the remote server in this file. After deleting existing entry for the remote server I was able to follow the steps to login to remote server and then add a new entry for same in known_hosts file.
I have done the following:
Created the RSA 2048 with PuTTY, then saved the public and private keys at the location suggested by eclipse
Created the test repository at github and uploaded the public key to server
Created a HelloWorld project and added some text files
Problem:
Even choosing the Github SSH URL, I still get an authentication error message.
What else am I missing?
Make sure you reference the right folder in your Eclipse ssh configuration
And make sure the key generated through putty is not a ppk one, but an openssh one (id_rsa, id_rsa.pub). The id_rsa.pub content needs to be registered in your GitHub account.
And your ssh url needs to start with git#github.com (not yourlogin#github.com)
I have a project written in Python, hosted on Heroku, and which I've been working on in Eclipse/PyDev.
I can commit fine from inside Eclipse, and I can git push heroku master from the command line, but it would be much smoother if I could push a branch directly from Eclipse.
The problem is I'm getting the username and password login prompt in Eclipse for my heroku remote.
Is there any way to set this up to use my SSH key from Eclipse?
Is there any way to set this up to use my SSH key from Eclipse?
Set the ssh keys on your machine and then change the url of the cloned repository to the ssh protocol 'git#....`
Once your keys are set correctly you should not see the username password again.
P.S
Once you set your keys and you have updated the repository url do a first time fetch/pull so your key will be added to the known_hosts file. (answer yes when prompt)
My (newest) Netbeans (NetBeans IDE 7.3 (Build 201302132200)) seems to be failing completely, when I'm trying to access my own GitHub repo using SSH. It works without problems with HTTP URLs.
Since I've imported an existing local copy of GitHub repository (New > PHP Project with existing sources), created once with TortoiseGit, there were remote settings saved in local copy meta-data (probably in .git folder). So Netbeans offers option Select Configured Git Repository Location in Push to Remote Repository window. But is unsuccessful at that.
Tried following:
When I'm using SSH URL (git#github.com:user/reponame.git) and Password option, with account pass, Netbeans tries to connect GitHub (remote) and after circa 5 seconds throws error Cannot connect to the remote repository at git#github.com:user/reponame.git.
When using SSH URL with Private/Public Key option, Netbeans throws exactly the same error immediately, so I assume, that for some reason it doesn't even tries to connect GitHub.
What is even more strange (?), Netbeans is not asking for private key's passpharse. I've set it, but did not entered it to Netbeans deliberately, to test connection process. I was more than sure, that Netbeans will ask me to provide this passpharse, as it shouldn't be able to use private key without it. To my surprise, it hasn't asked for it and instead it thrown an error saying, that it can't connect GitHub. Of course, that was only a test. After entering correct passpharse, I'm getting exactly the same effects.
I've copied my repo's URL directly from GitHub website, without any modifications. It seems, that I can only use HTTP URL (https://github.com/user/reponame.git). This works and assures me that all items (URL, user, reponame, password, finally Internet connection) are OK. But, it seems, that Netbeans fails completely on SSH URL.
Above happens always, no matter if I select Select Configured Git Repository Location or Specify Git Repository Location in Push to Remote Repository window. No matter, what I'll do I can't access my repository via SSH in Netbeans and using HTTP is the only option.
I have created my private-public key pair using puttygen.exe from PuTTY's website. I saved private key in Netbeans installation directory and added public key to GitHub's SSH Settings page. I used step-by-step guide I normally use with TortoiseGit.
I don't know what else I could miss out or I'm doing wrong? Any idea?
For the record:
When generating keys with PuTTYgen, it's recommended for compatibility to export it as an OpenSSH key. This can be achieved by accesing Conversions > Export OpenSSH key menu.
After series of many tests, I found out that Netbeans:
Does not work to well with existing local copies of GitHub (or any other git) remote repositories.
Does not work at all with SSH keys generated by puttygen.
As for first, I had to remove entire folder cloned with TortoiseGit and clone the same repository using Netbeans-bundled tools (Team > Git > Clone). The same goes for Subversion (look here) -- so the general rule of thumb says, that when you're switching from another Git or SVN client to Netbeans, you should do a full, clean clone (or checkout) of remote repository as attempts to re-use existing copy will most likely fail.
As for second, follow instructions given in this GitHub article and use ssh-keygen (either from your local installation of Git for Windows, in case of Windows or from any other source) instead of puttygen -- SSH keys generated by it can't be used in Netbeans for setting up password-less login to GitHub.
As I wrote, I've been using TortoiseGit previously, which accepts and works well with puttygen keys, so it wasn't to obvious for me, that source of the problem is here.
After fixing this two problems (getting clean clone and generating correct keys), ale problems expressed in my question were gone and Netbeans works with GitHub repositories like a charm.
My solution was to use a the ssh-keygen with the PEM option:
ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -m PEM -C my#mail.xy
Netbeans 12 use JGit for the Git-tool and this supports only special kinds of ssh keys?