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Git SSH authentication

I have Debian, Fisheye and Git on my server. My git repos are managed by Fisheye. There is no authentication at the Fisheye part. All authentication procedures are managed by git.

I would like to use SSH authentication, so that I do not need to provide username and password as I push my changes to the server. I know how to create an rsa key, but where do I copy my public key at the server?

Solution

  • The key part of the article "Git on the Server - Setting Up the Server" is:

    you need to add some developer SSH public keys to the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file for that user.
    Let’s assume you’ve received a few keys by e-mail and saved them to temporary files. Again, the public keys look something like this:

    $ cat /tmp/id_rsa.john.pub
ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAABAQCB007n/ww+ouN4gSLKssMxXnBOvf9LGt4L
ojG6rs6hPB09j9R/T17/x4lhJA0F3FR1rP6kYBRsWj2aThGw6HXLm9/5zytK6Ztg3RPKK+4k
Yjh6541NYsnEAZuXz0jTTyAUfrtU3Z5E003C4oxOj6H0rfIF1kKI9MAQLMdpGW1GYEIgS9Ez
Sdfd8AcCIicTDWbqLAcU4UpkaX8KyGlLwsNuuGztobF8m72ALC/nLF6JLtPofwFBlgc+myiv
O7TCUSBdLQlgMVOFq1I2uPWQOkOWQAHukEOmfjy2jctxSDBQ220ymjaNsHT4kgtZg2AYYgPq
dAv8JggJICUvax2T9va5 gsg-keypair

    (Note: make sure the key is displayed on one single line)

    You just append them to your authorized_keys file:

    $ cat /tmp/id_rsa.john.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

    If you don't have an authorized_keys file on your server, create it, but make sure to protect it correctly.

    server$ mkdir ~/.ssh
server$ chmod 700 ~/.ssh
server$ cat ~/id_rsa.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
server$ chmod 600 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
server$ rm ~/id_rsa.pub

    See "Creating SSH keys for Gerrit and Hudson" for a concrete example.