From: Shawn O. Pearce Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:04:30 GMT Subject: Re: egit and RSA keys for SSH Message-ID: <20090615150430.GY16497@spearce.org> In-Reply-To: Tay Ray Chuan wrote: > On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 8:16 AM, Aaron > Hicks wrote: > > The problem is I can't see how to associate an RSA key in > > order to authenticate the SSH login with our gitosis repository (or > > GitHub). We have PuTTY installed and use Pageant to manage keys, and > > the required key is already loaded. We've used the 'import project' > > wizard, and initialised git in our project workspace, and though egit > > becomes aware that the project is a git repository, there seem to > > be no menu items for associating an RSA key with a remote repository. > > For git, I set the GIT_SSH environment variable to PuTTY's plink.exe > location. I wonder if this might work with egit? No. JGit (the library under EGit) does not honor GIT_SSH. -- Shawn.