Cannot clone gitlab project via SSH - ssh

I am trying to use SSH method to clone gitlab project, and I follow the instructions in the website https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ssh/ but it failed, below is the log that I run the command “ssh -Tvvv git#gitlab.com”, I have tried on several computers but the same problem happened. could anyone help me to figure out the problem, thanks!
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Best Regards,
Simon

Make sure to answer yes at the "The authenticity of host 'gitlab.com' can't be established" step.
If you don't, the SSH connection won't complete, and the clone will fail.
That step should be asked only once, meaning your next ssh -Tvvv git#gitlab.com should not ask you again the same question, since ~/.known_hosts will have been updated.
This is safer than StrictHostKeyChecking=no.

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why yes command not working in git clone?

i am trying to run script that clone repository and then build it in my docker.
And it is a private repository so i have copied ssh keys in docker.
but seems like below command does not work.
yes yes | git clone (ssh link to my private repository.)
When i manually tried to run script in my local system its showing the same.but it works fine for other commands.
I have access of repository as i can type yes and it works.
But i can't type yes in docker build.
Any help will be appreciated.
This is purely an ssh issue. When ssh is connecting to a host for the "first time",1 it obtains a "host fingerprint" and prints it, then opens /dev/tty to interact with the human user so as to obtain a yes/no answer about whether it should continue connecting. You cannot defeat this by piping to its standard input.
Fortunately, ssh has about a billion options, including:
the option to obtain the host fingerprint in advance, using ssh-keyscan, and
the option to verify a host key via DNS.
The first is the one to use here: run ssh-keyscan and create a known_hosts file in the .ssh directory. Security considerations will tell you how careful to be about this (i.e., you must decide how paranoid to be).
1"First" is determined by whether there's a host key in your .ssh/known_hosts file. Since you're spinning up a Docker image that you then discard, every time is the first time. You could set up a docker image that has the file already in it, so that no time is the first time.

Gitlab configured with SSH keys still asks for password

I am trying to avoid typing the password every time I want to pull or push from a gitlab repository. Therefore I followed https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ssh/ but still, now every time I want to pull something it still asks me to provide the password for my remote gitlab repository.
Any clue on how to fix this issue?
Are you sure you are using the SSH link for your repository? It is like: git#gitlab.com:YOUR-USER/YOUR PROJECT.git

Mercurial: How to post-hook push to Bitbucket?

We have a 'master' Mercurial server on our network that we use for a local staging box. Our team does all of our pushes and pulls to/from this one box. I'm having trouble with the implementation I'm using, but I'm also second guessing whether what I want to do is even a good idea...
We also want to start using BitBucket, but only as a secondary server. I'd like to use a hook to automatically push to Bitbucket, but I can't get it working right...
Here's the HGRC from the 'master' repo:
[hooks]
changegroup =
changegroup.update = hg update
changegroup.bitbucket = hg push ssh://hg#bitbucket.org/account/repo
If I manually fire off the above push, everything works perfectly. However, as a hook it fails:
warning: changegroup.bitbucket hook exited with status 255
I followed this guide to get SSH working: Set up SSH for Git and Mercurial on Mac OSX/Linux
I get my keys generated, I run ssh-agent, and I ssh-add the key. But ssh-agent doesn't seem to be doing anything, and as soon as I exit the SSH session it seems to leave memory. Additionally, when I test it out with ssh -Tv hg#bitbucket.org it prompts me for my password. I thought the whole point of this was for it not to do that?
But taking a step back, maybe this is a terrible idea to being with. If I give my public key to Bitbucket wouldn't that theoretically mean if someone got a hold of it, they could SSH in to my box without a password?
And if so, what alternative do I have to forward commits to bitbucket? I'd rather not use HTTPS because it would require putting our bitbucket password as plain/text in the .hg/hgrc file...
Maybe there's some more obvious way to do this that I'm missing? For the developers, I'd rather keep things the way they are now (everyone push to master) instead of reconfiguring everyone's developer box to have a private key and to push to bitbucket instead...
As always, thanks for any help you guys can provide.
Woah, there are a lot of questions there. I'll hit a few of 'em:
But ssh-agent doesn't seem to be doing anything, and as soon as I exit the SSH session it seems to leave memory.
You're correct. ssh-agent is for interactive sessions, not for automation. In most usages when you log out it's killed, but even if that weren't the case it wouldn't be working as you imagine because when someone does that hg push they're running a new, non-interactive session that wouldn't have access to the ssh-agent anyway
Additionally, when I test it out with ssh -Tv hg#bitbucket.org it prompts me for my password.
Testing it out like that isn't valid. That's saying "I want to log into an interactive session at bitbucket with the username hg", but that's not what they authorize you to do. If you send them your public key they let you login as the user hg only for the purposes of doing hg non-interactive commands.
Additionally, when I test it out with ssh -Tv hg#bitbucket.org it prompts me for my password.
No, public keys are meant to be public -- you can list anyone's on github for example. The public key just says "anyone who has the private key that matches this is authorized to...", so any site that wants your private key are crooks, but any site that wants you public key is just offering you a way to use something better than a password.
One thing you may be missing about hooks is "who" the hook runs as. When people are pushing to your "centralish" repo over ssh that the hook is being run as their unix user, and if they're pushing over http the hook is being run as the web server's user.
If you had:
a private ssh key with no password on it
the public key matching that private key setup on bitbucket
the unix user running the hook using that private key for access to bitbucket.org
then what you're trying to do would work.

still asking for password even after setting up the machine for Password-less SSH Login

I need to copy a file from a remote machine to my local machine and I need to automate it.
I've tried SCP command and it's working, however, I could not automate the part wherein it is asking for the password of the user of the local machine and the remote machine.
Based on this article I can Perform SSH Login Without Password Using ssh-keygen & ssh-copy-id
after following all the instructions written there, I tried to access the remote machine using this
ssh lalala#XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
it works, it doesnt ask for the password anymore. But when I tried copying a file from that machine using the command below,
scp lalala#XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:'/a/b/c.txt' lelele#XXX.XXX.XXX.YYY:'/b/c/'
it still asks for the password of the localmachine which is the lelele#XXX.XXX.XXX.YYY
I wonder if I did something wrong? what could it be? is there something wrong with the format of the command?
BTW, im using Centos, and I'm planning to code it using python
If you are copying to your local machine why don't you just do
scp lalala#XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:'/a/b/c.txt' /b/c/
?
I tried your line on some machine with similar setup and didn't get asked for password; I got an error instead, but this is probably due to differences in our configurations. I tried mine and it worked.
Regarding whether your connection succeeds in the remote machine you could tail this file there:
tail -f /var/log/secure
If you see no error there you can be sure (well, never say always) your layout with the generated keys is working.
In this case I bet you'll see no error there
I think you may have multiple ssh keys and set identies only as yes. If so, please check this answer: https://askubuntu.com/a/999306/398861

how can I acces a Github repo from a 2nd machine?

Although there is a number of questions on the topic, I'm not getting anywhere....
I need to access an existing repo on Github from an alternate machine and I'm having trouble setting it up.
So I have installed Github and ran:
git config global --user.name
git config global --user.email
git init
git clone git#github.com:user/repo.git
I'm getting Permisson Denied (publickey)
Which I guess is due to me not having provided my SSH key. I have the key here, but no clue, what to do.
Question:
How to do I supply the SSH key to be able to connect my 2nd PC to my git repo.
Thanks!
You need to register another ssh key with github for the second computer.
Go here and add another key. This page explains the process.
You can switch to https authentication if you don't want to generate another pair of key or transfer your existing one to the new box.
You will need to change your clone command to following: git clone https://github.com/user/repo.git
Their help section has a nice step-by-step guide to setting up your machin: https://help.github.com/articles/generating-ssh-keys#platform-all.
Specifically, see step 4 for instructions on how to import a new key.