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.
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I have various GitHub accounts and for each account I have SSH set up. So under ~/.ssh I have a public and private key for each account.
I want to use the GitHub CLI, but I am not sure how I can tell the CLI to use a particular SSH key.
In case it is relevant, this is what I get when I run ssh-add -l:
Example Scenario
I want to run gh repo create on GitHub account B, but for some reason, the repo got created on GitHub account A. Is there a way I can tell gh what account to use?
if you have different GitHub users the gh-cli won't be very effective. as #phd commands like gh repo create require logging in via an auth token. https://cli.github.com/manual/gh_auth_login
Switching contexts between accounts (i.e. github.com/user1 and github.com/user2) def doesn't seem supported so you'd have to hack around loging in and out each time every time you switched.
But configuring which ssh key git should use can be configured easily enough in some combo of ~/.ssh/config .gitconfig and/or setting the GIT_SSH_COMMAND env var before running git commands.
i can't get a point and understand how it works and what is necessary to do.
I have an account by GitLab and successfully generated private and public certificate in order to provide access to it. I done all steps as describes the https://gitlab.com/help/ssh/README#generating-a-new-ssh-key-pair . Now i decided to create a new project and synchronize the state between gitLab project and one i created local by me. Because i have access to machine, which i used to create both certificate, i simply copied the public key from one machine (located in ~/.ssh folder) to current machine i am working in (in ~/.ssh folder). But it doesn't take any effect. I can't even execute the git clone command.
~> git clone git#gitlab.com:[myUser]/[myProject].git
Cloning into 'gate-controller'...
git#gitlab.com: Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.
i tried to figure out the reason and executed
~> ssh -vT git#gitlab.com
but to be a honest i can't interpret that response. I don't see in response any reference to my public keys file in ssh folder.
Could you please support me to solved the issue and understand, what is the problem ?
many thanks in advance
UPDATE:
You need the private key on any machine you're attempting to pull/push from. When authenticating with a service that has your public key (which any git service like Github, Gitlab, etc. will have) you need to use your private key when authenticating.
You can read more about ssh (which git uses when you don't use HTTPS auth) and PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) here https://www.ssh.com/pki/
I am trying to add my SSH ID to bitbucket from my newly installed ArchLinux setup. The instructions for adding my id to bitbucket involve using my browser and copy/paste the key. I am not using a GUI but don't know what the command is to push public keys from commandline to bitbucket. How do I manage this?
You could try to use the links command line browser, although it doesn't seem installed by default. Of course you may want to get the ID into a clipboard of sorts if you don't want to type it over.
If the posting the ID doesn't require difficult pages and settings you may be able to implement this using httpie - which does seem to be installed.
We use Vagrant boxes for development. For every project or small snippet we simply start a new box and provision it with Ansible. This is working fantastic; however, we do get into trouble when connecting to a private Bitbucket repository within a bower install run.
The solution we have now is to generate a new key (ssh-keygen), accept all defaults (pressing <return>, <return>, <return>) and then grab the public key (cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub). Copy it, go to Bitbucket, view your account and add this new ssh key. And repeat for every new box you instantiate.
We have to do this because of some closed source packages (hosted on Bitbucket) we install via Bower. We do have another experience, which is much better: composer (php's package manager) and private Github repositories. With that setup, you have to enter your username/password/2fa token via the command line and an OAuth token is generated for you. This works great.
So, is there a way we can mitigate this bower/bitbucket/ssh issue? For obvious reasons I don't want to provision the boxes with a standard private key, but there has to be another solution?
While I'm not sure that my situation is as complex as yours (I'm not using Ansible or Bower), I solved this problem by using the Vagrant ssh forward agent. This blog post gives you the details on how to get it working:
Cloning from GitHub in Vagrant using SSH agent forwarding
So as long as each of the developers has access on their local machines to the bitbucket repos, it should work.
I am trying out Github for Windows and I am getting the following error when I try to publish a newly created repository.
Authentication failed
Your credentials may be out of date. Please log out of the application and then log back in before retrying the operation.
Needless to say I've logged out and back in multiple times without success. I've also uninstalled and installed the latest version to no avail.
The repository is a new one I created within the application and contains only the .gitattributes, .git and README files.
I am a complete newbie to Github so it's quite possible I've messed something up during the setup process.
I was able to solve this by:
Press Settings - Open in GitShell.
git status
git push (or pull)
introduce credentials (here is the most important step, somehow git client messed up or forgot your credentials).
After giving correct credentials you can exit from git shell and use git client again.
It turns out that the problem was Github for Windows was having a problem with the password it had stored. Github support's instructions were as follows:
Log out of Github for Windows.
Change my password on github.com
Log back into Github for Windows.
I was then able to publish my changes.
Did you setup your ssh keys?
https://help.github.com/articles/generating-ssh-keys#platform-windows