RE: egit and RSA keys for SSH
Hi Shawn,
I've followed your instructions, and added the same RSA key that I use with Git and Git Extensions (using Windows here), but eGit still asks for a password for a the git user (which is password disabled, and requires RSA). I'm telling eGit to access via "git + SSH".
I'm assuming for windows the ~/.ssh should be in C:\path\to\profile\username\.ssh ?
I'm not 100% that eGit has installed correctly in Eclipse (3.4.2 Ganymede, Windows XP SP3, Java 1.6.0_13) either. I can't see many git-like commands in the context menus for files and projects.
Regards,
Aaron Hicks
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: spearce@spearce.org [mailto:spearce@spearce.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, 16 June 2009 3:04 a.m.
> To: Aaron Hicks
> Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: egit and RSA keys for SSH
>
> Aaron Hicks <HicksA@landcareresearch.co.nz> wrote:
> > We have a git repository set up with gitosis and it requires RSA
> > keys to authenticate developers who have rights to push to this
> > repository. i.e. they are blessed with write privileges. Github
> > uses a similar method.
> >
> > We use Eclipse, so we would like Eclipse to integrate with Git. So
> > we grabbed egit from http://www.jgit.org/update-site and used the
> > Eclipse installer (Like we do all the other Eclipse plug-in, given
> > that the egit/jgit sites don't give instructions otherwise it seems
> > to be the thing to do).
> >
> > 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.
>
> Unfortunately both PuTTY's Pageant and OpenSSH's ssh-agent are
> not supported from JSch, which is the SSH client used within JGit,
> which is what is underneath EGit. Consequently, you can't use the
> agent to manage your keys.
>
> From within Eclipse, if you go to Window > Preferences > General >
> Network Connections > SSH2 you can configure your RSA keys. But,
> these keys are configured globally for the workspace, i.e. its
> more like loading the key into the agent than it is about binding
> a particular key to a particular host.
>
> To force binding a key to a host, use ~/.ssh/config. JGit knows
> how to read this file on startup and uses the Host blocks to do
> some configuration control over the connection.
>
> E.g. if you use a URL like "git@gitserver.example.com:foo.git"
> then you can put the following in your ~/.ssh/config to force using
> a specific SSH key:
>
> Host gitserver.example.com
> IdentityFile .ssh/id_gitkey
>
> Note that ~/.ssh/config is cached on startup of EGit, so you'll
> need to completely restart the Eclipse workspace after making any
> changes to it.
>
> --
> Shawn.
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