Can you run gitk over SSH/SCP? - ssh

I've started editing files over ssh/scp with vim, and it works pretty good.
So given that this can be done; is there any way to use SSH / SCP to load a remote repository into gitk locally?
I tried gitk scp://root#192.168.XXX.XXX//home/demo but I just end up with a dialog that reads Cannot find a git repository here.

Or you can run the gitk on remote server, if you enable X11 Forwarding, if it is enabled and gitk installed on you server.
ssh -X root#192.168.XXX.XXX "cd /home/demo; gitk"

Even though it is not what you asked, it might help you:
You could simply mount it with sshfs.
sudo sshfs -o allow_other,\
IdentityFile=/home/ysragh/.ssh/id_rsa \
yzzi#wow2d.development.yggdrasil.group:\
/opt/wow2d /home/ysragh/wow2d
And then you can use Vim and/or gitk in your home directory as if you downloaded it :)
I'm doing this like all the time when developing with virtual machine images :)

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How to not initialize ssh session

Well I was smart enough to put an exit 0 in one of my dotfiles on a remote machine. Whenever I log in, the shell exits instantly now. How can I ssh into a machine without sourcing all the dot files?
I found a workaround to solve this problem by directly running a command:
ssh -t remotehost vim /dotfile/i/had/to/revert

Using "Remote SSH" in VSCode on a target machine that only allows inbound SSH connections

Is there a way to use the VSCode Remote SSH extension to interact with a remote host that does not allow outbound internet connections?
Is it possible to download the vscode-server files from another system and copy to host?
I read this but I can't connect the server to internet.
When you connect to a host it executes a bash script that wgets or curls a tarball and extracts it in a directory in your home directory. Here's an offline workaround.
Attempt to connect, let it fail
On server, get the commit id
$ ls ~/.vscode-server/bin
553cfb2c2205db5f15f3ee8395bbd5cf066d357d
Download tarball replacing $COMMIT_ID with the the commit number from the previous step
For Stable Version
https://update.code.visualstudio.com/commit:$COMMIT_ID/server-linux-x64/stable
For Insider Version
https://update.code.visualstudio.com/commit:$COMMIT_ID/server-linux-x64/insider
Move tarball to ~/.vscode-server/bin/$COMMIT_ID/vscode-server-linux-x64.tar.gz
Extract tarball in this directory
$ cd ~/.vscode-server/bin/$COMMIT_ID
$ tar -xvzf vscode-server-linux-x64.tar.gz --strip-components 1
Connect again
You'll still need to install any extensions manually. There's a download button next to all the extensions in the marketplace. Once you have the .vsix file you can install them through the GUI with the Install from VSIX option in the extensions manager.
This is kind of a pain and hopefully they improve this process, but if you have a network-based home directory, you only have to do this once.
open vscode -> about
Version: 1.46.1
Commit: cd9ea6488829f560dc949a8b2fb789f3cdc05f5d
Date: 2020-06-17T21:17:14.222Z
Electron: 7.3.1
Chrome: 78.0.3904.130
Node.js: 12.8.1
V8: 7.8.279.23-electron.0
OS: Darwin x64 17.7.0
$COMMIT_ID = cd9ea6488829f560dc949a8b2fb789f3cdc05f5d
A new feature is being added to support offline install
However, you can now solve this issue by a new user setting in the Remote - SSH extension. If you enable the setting remote.SSH.allowLocalServerDownload, the extension will install the VS Code Server on the client first and then copy it over to the server via SCP.
Note: This is currently an experimental feature but will be turned on by default in the next release
https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2019/10/03/remote-ssh-tips-and-tricks
A a work around I have done the following:
Desktop ~/.ssh/config
...
Host *
RemoteForward 54321
...
Remote: ~/bin/wget in which ~/bin is added to PATH via .bashrc
#!/bin/bash
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/opt/lib/tsocks/
export TSOCKS_CONF_FILE=$HOME/opt/tsocks/tsocks.conf
$HOME/bin/tsocks /usr/bin/wget $#
Remote: ~/opt/tsocks/tsocks.conf
server = 127.0.0.1
server_port = 54321
server_type = 5
note tsocks binary has been scp-ed to ~/bin/tsocks and ~/opt/tsocks/ has been created with libtsocks.so which is normally stored in /usr/lib64/libtsocks.so
This is a work around that allows me to have wget functionality with out messing with anything outside my profile to get it to work (eg: no root required ... even though I have it).
Current Version of VS Code: 1.48.2
I just kill the wget process on the server end, and let the client download the archive and transfer it to the server end. That's quite easy as below.
make sure that you set in settings.json
"remote.SSH.allowLocalServerDownload": true,
execute the shell scrpits below.
# to find the <pid>
ps aux | grep wget | grep vscode-server
# kill the process
kill -9 <pid>
# then wait for the client downloading and transferring
# optional: If you want to know the progress, just
cd ~/.vscode-server/bin/<commit-id>/
watch -n 1 -d ls -rthl

The web server not permitted for chmod under WSL Ubuntu

I use Ubuntu 18 as WSL and everything was running well. Today I run the apache and started the application. When the app tried to perform chmod() on a file which was submited through form inside the folder project (I use Laravel), I received the following error:
chmod(): Operation not permitted
I have notice that this error happen when I try running chmod() from web server (www-data user). In the cli I dont have problems.
From other posts over the net, I understand that Windows has some changes regarding WSL permissions and drive mounts. But I didnt get answer or didnt succeed to resolve that issue.
sudo umount /mnt/c
sudo mount -t drvfs C: /mnt/c -o metadata
Reference: https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/3172#issuecomment-389157376
sudo umount /mnt/c
sudo mount -t drvfs C: /mnt/c -o metadata,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=22,fmask=111
did the trick for me.
Ref: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/chmod-chown-wsl-improvements/

How can I upload and download files in the OPENSHIFT_DATA_DIR?

I'm pretty new to SSH and such, so I'm not sure how to do this. I can ssh into the server pretty easy:
ssh uuid#appname-domain.rhcloud.com
and cd into the data directory:
cd app-root/data
But I'm not sure where to go from there. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
I use Winscp for windows. Here is post about the subject from openshift.
https://www.openshift.com/forums/openshift/copying-files-to-server
If you have an scp command line utility installed, you can use the rhc scp command

TortoiseGit with openssh key not authenticating using ssh-agent

I'm setting up a git environment on Windows XP (msysGit 1.7.11, TortoiseGit 1.7.14) and trying to achieve following points :
ssh connection on a port different than default 22
ssh authentification handled by ssh-agent
So I create a ~/.ssh/config file :
Host gitbox
User gitolite
Hostname XX.XX.XX.XX
Port 154
PreferredAuthentications publickey
IdentityFile "/c/Documents and Settings/kraymer/.ssh/id_rsa"
When using the git bash CLI, everything works as intended.
I'm struggling with TortoiseGit.
I first installed TortoiseGit with Plink and using Pageant to load ssh private key. The automatic authentication (Pageant) worked but setup was a fail as TortoiseGit don't recognize git repos url formatted as gitolite#gitbox/repo.git.
I then decided to install TortoiseGit using openssh client, so the config file can be read by the ssh client, and to mimic the git CLI setup.
I picked the ssh.exe shipped with msys git as ssh client in TortoiseGit settings.
When doing a git pull, the remote url is now resolved but the passphrase password is asked while I expect ssh-agent automatic authentication to occur.
Is it possible to make TortoiseGit work with ssh-agent ?
Or make TortoiseGit (Plink) aware of .ssh/config ?
Edit #1
Following #VonC advice I configured my $HOME variable.
When I click Show environment variables in TortoiseGit I now have :
HOME=C:\Documents and Settings\kraymer
HOMEDRIVE=C:
HOMEPATH=\Documents and Settings\kraymer
But git pull still require I enter passphrase.
No tweaks needed.
Just make TortoiseGit point to the same ssh client used by git itself, see the screenshot:
This should be C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin\ssh.exe in latest version of Git as mentioned by Aleksey Kontsevich in the comments.
I first installed TortoiseGit with Plink and using Pageant to load ssh private key. The automatic authentication (Pageant) worked but setup was a fail as TortoiseGit don't recognize git repos url formatted as gitolite#gitbox/repo.git.
I finally found a workaround which consist to create a PuTTY session with the same name that the ssh alias (ie gitbox in the question).
This way I can clone as git clone gitbox/monrepo in the CLI and the origin syntax is correctly handled by TortoiseGit.
Windows10 System
#TortoiseGit
In Network Section
From : C:\Program Files\TortoiseGit\bin\TortoiseGitPlink.exe
To : "C:\Users{user}\AppData\Local\Programs\Git\usr\bin\ssh.exe"
There seems to be a whole variety of options to solve this. As none of the above have worked for me, I tought I'd share what helped for me.
In Settings... -> Network -> SSH -> SSH client, set the client to C:\Program Files\TortoiseGit\bin\TortoiseGitPlink.exe. Using Pageant, you're then automatically authenticated as expected, otherwise you are prompted for your private key passphrase. Make sure the "Autoload Putty Key" option is checked in the push dialog.
Cygwin
Use approach described in the following article:
https://help.github.com/articles/working-with-ssh-key-passphrases
Password will be asked only once on the cygwin session startup.
!!! Before exiting cygwin session don't forget to kill ssh-agent process (use ps for find process PID and kill -9).
We are using separate approach for cygwin, because cygwin by some reason doesn't see processes started externally in windows environment.
2, 3) MsysGit, TortoiseGit
Useful link:
http://dogbiscuit.org/mdub/weblog/Tech/WindowsSshAgent
Install MsysGit.
Install TortoiseGit (check openssh instead of plink during installation).
!!! Check systems variables. If there is GIT_SSH variable present - remove it.
Go to TortoiseGit->Settings->General
Set Git exe Path to /bin
Set External dll path to /mingw/bin
Go to TortoiseGit->Settings->Network
Set SSH Client property to /bin/ssh.exe
Define system variable SSH_AUTH_SOCK=C:\temp.ssh-socket
Start cmd.exe and execute following commands(since we installed MsysGit all following commands are accessible in cmd - /bin is added to system PATH variable):
# following command is required to execute for avoiding Address already bind message when ssh-agen is not started yet but .ssh-socket exists after previous agent session
rm "%SSH_AUTH_SOCK%"
# Starting ssh-agent
ssh-agent -a "%SSH_AUTH_SOCK%"
# Adding our openssh key
ssh-add "%USERPROFILE%\.ssh\id_rsa"
# Type password for your key
That's it. From that moment you can execute git push, git pull from TortoiseGit and MsysGit without prompting passphrase.
When ssh-agent is no longer required you can kill it through windows task manager.
None of the above answers worked for me.
I created this batch file to solve the problem.
CALL "C:\Program Files\Git\cmd\start-ssh-agent.cmd"
SETX SSH_AUTH_SOCK "%SSH_AUTH_SOCK%"
SETX SSH_AGENT_PID "%SSH_AGENT_PID%"
Run this once, and enter your passphrase.
Then you can use tortoisegit with openssh without having to enter your passphrase for every operation.
Make sure to launch your TortoiseGit in an environment where HOME is defined, and reference the parent directory of .ssh.
This is important since, on Windows, HOME isn't defined by default.
See as an example: "Auth fails on Windows XP with git and tortoisegit".
(Other possible sources: "How to I tell Git for Windows where to find my private RSA key?")
Since the explanations here are a bit outdated, I decided to post my solution.
I am using Git Bash and TortoiseGit 2.8.0 in Windows 10, which are common nowadays.
I set ssh.exe as SSH client in Settings->Network as explained in previous posts.
I created a script with the following commands, as explained in a previous comment. You might also want to set a HOME environment variable, in case your system does not do it automatically. Assuming your home is in drive H:\ you can add the following lines:
SETX HOME /h
CALL "C:\Program Files\Git\cmd\start-ssh-agent.cmd"
SETX SSH_AUTH_SOCK "%SSH_AUTH_SOCK%"
SETX SSH_AGENT_PID "%SSH_AGENT_PID%"
I added the script using Win logo+R shell:startup to the startup folder. Alternatively, you can add the script to the registry to guarantee that it runs before other processes:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Make sure to type exit to close the console and allow for the variable to be set for future processes.
If you use RSA keys in repositories, add at the end of the script as described above^
CALL "C:\Program Files\Git\cmd\start-ssh-agent.cmd"
...
"C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin\ssh-add" ~/.ssh/myid.rsa
Works with Git 2.24.0, TortoiseGit 2.9.0, Windows 10 and no any Putty using.