I am about to finish a coding boot camp which had us blindly set up our git and github account info through Vagrant/putty in the beginning using SSH keys. I went ahead and downloaded cmder and set it up to launch bash on terminal open, but when I try to git push or pull, I am getting an error Permission denied(publickey). fatal: could not read from remote repository.
I have checked the username and email, and they are set to my correct credentials. Will the fact that I made the SSH keys while logged in to the schools Vagrant system cause issues, and if so, is there a way to strip and reset my SSH keys or switch my git to use HTTPS credentials to log in?
I've done a good bit of googling and only come across ways to install and setup git bash, which I've of course already done. Thanks in advance for any help.
One benefit of using SSH keys over your username and password is that you can have separate keys for each machine you'll log into GitHub with. Don't transfer the keys; just generate new ones for your home machine, and disable the old VM keys on GitHub's end.
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In a corporate environment running Windows I have the following issue:
Using git via SSH via
git clone git#server:repo.git
I am prompted for a password:
git clone git#server:repo.git
Cloning into 'repo'...
git#server's password:
The SSH Key is not found, although my SSH key resides in C:\Users\[USERNAME]\.ssh.
However, running the command shell (CMD) as administrator, everything works just fine.
What is the issue and how can it be fixed?
(Note: I am answering my own question since the issue wasted hours of my time and I did not see it in other issues having similar "access denied" symptoms).
Getting "access denied" or haven SSH keys not recognised may have a variety of reasons, see also
https://serverfault.com/questions/194567/how-do-i-tell-git-for-windows-where-to-find-my-private-rsa-key
The issue above - where git works when run as local admin, but not as user - is possibly related to a specific setup in a corporate environment. In my case the machine had a folder C:\Users\[USERNAME] but also a profile on a network mounted drive (say N). The .ssh folder with my key resided in C:\Users\[USERNAME] but git was looking in N:
Running as (Local) Administrator on the Machine changed the behaviour and used the profile from C:\Users\[USERNAME].
To find your home folder:
open Git Bash on Windows
type cd ~;pwd
The issue is ultimately related to different settings of the environment variables HOMEDRIVE, HOMESHARE or USERPROFILE, see also Git bash home directory different from Git extension than Git Bash
I know that thousands of topics touch my problem but I am fighting this from several days with almost zero progress ;(.
I installed Jenkins on Windows machine.
Then acquired Git plugin and the Git itself.
Everything is latest version for the day of my writing.
I was just happy to start to play with Jenkins but I failed at configuring my Bitbucket repository to be used by Job.
I set the exact path to git.exe (as it seemed the reason for initial problems) [C:\Program Files\Git\cmd\git.exe].
Then I tried accessing the repository by HTTPS with account credentials, many strange errors here so I thought let's try with SSH.
I have generated rsa keys, set the public key in the Bitbucket repository. Then I created credential configuration in Jenkins for SSH authentication with passphrase.
I have many problems here so for temporary workaround I explicitly set the value of private key.
Finaly I got to the place where I am now:
+refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*" returned status code 128:
stdout:
stderr: Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.
When I try to manualy copy repository, it politely asks me about passphrase and the copy is done. When Jenkins job does it the above happens. With help of %USERNAME% and %USERDOMAIN% in the Job's script I get the same values like when I do it manually.
After plenty of hours I can say I can't use Git in Jenkins ;(
UPDATE
I don't believe that it could be so simple. As mainframer mentioned, I left passphrase empty for the whole SSH authentication and it really worked (the repository is cloned even that Jenkins still shows the same error in job's configuration page). I only wonder about any consequences of such setup, but working thing is more valuable for me now.
You mean leaving empty passphrase while generating keys and then also no passphrase config in Jenkins ssh credentials?
Yes, as Jenkins wouldn't be able to feed the passphrase to the ssh session.
But make sure the Jenkins slave service runs with your account (and not with the system account). It needs your account to find the ssh keys in %USERPROFILE%\.ssh\id_rsa(.pub)
I've been having an issue trying to add github materials from a private repo on a Windows server.
I've seen lots of people suggesting how to add the ssh keys and where but on unix based systems. Haven't found anything related to Windows Servers.
I'm using Go latest release and have installed Go Server & Agent on a Windows Server 2008 with git installed.
I can connect to the private repo using Git Bash.
Whenever I try to add the materials it keeps saying Checking Connection and looks like it stays there forever.
If I use basic auth it works but I would like to make it work without exposing my password in the URL.
Is there a way to do that?
If you run Go under the default local system account, you can follow the suggestions from http://opensourcetester.co.uk/2013/06/28/jenkins-windows-ssh/ to setup the ssh keys for local system account.
If you run Go Server under a domain account (and not the default Local System account), check if you have uploaded your ssh keys to %USERPROFILE%/.ssh/ folder on the server machine, %USERPROFILE% being HOME folder for the domain user. Once you set that up, Go server would be able to pick the required keys. The same holds good for the agent machines. Just so you know, Go would not invoke Git-bash internally to run the git commands, so any setup on bash will not take effect when running git from within Go.
If you are using a windows machine to host GoCD server and agents , it does not run under a normal user account, it runs under the “Local System Account”
So even you can access your git repo from git bash (logged in as the current user),GOCD cannot access the same.
So you need to add the SSH keys for the Local System Account from your your current user.
1.First find the home directory for the Local System Account(It will not reside under C:/Users )
2.Use any remote administration tool to find the home directory- If you go with http://download.sysinternals.com/files/PSTools.zip
a)unzip and run command-line as administrator
b)PsExec.exe -i -s cmd.exe -start the tool )
c)run echo %userprofile% to get the home directory (eg:C:\Windows\system32\config\systemprofile)
3.Now you can either copy the SSH key files from current user or create a new one using ssh commands.
Try checking Connection after creating/copying the SSH keys, it will show Connection OK!
I want to create an automate login for github push to repository script in mac terminal. But I met some problem with login issue, like it will ask for username and password, so what command that can automatically insert username when it ask for username same with password?
I found 'expect' command in Linux, but the way of using is different in Mac terminal.
Lunayos-MacBook-Pro:SuperDeals-iPhone Lunayo$ git push origin
Everything up-to-date
Lunayos-MacBook-Pro:SuperDeals-iPhone Lunayo$ git push upstream
Username:
You should refer to GitHub's excellent help articles:
Set Up Git
SSH key passphrases
Remotes
You need to either generate an SSH key with no passphrase (or start ssh-agent before you use your script if you would like to use a passphrase); otherwise, OpenSSH will ask for a password or passphrase.
Also ensure that your remote URL looks like ssh://git#github.com/user/repo.git or git#github.com:user/repo.git. Specifically, the git# part tells Git and OpenSSH that you want to make the SSH connection using the username git (which is correct for all GitHub repositories).
Before anybody shoots me down for this - I have already checked every appropriate thread and still not found a solution to my problem.
I have Hudson with git plugin installed on windows server (not my choice) and Hudson runs as a service. Git/bin is on the path. However I cannot clone the repository. Here is a shortened display of the console output:
Started by user anonymous
Checkout:workspace / C:\.hudson\jobs\sdf\workspace - hudson.remoting.LocalChannel#65394b
Last Built Revision: Revision 74200b32314231a5efdadd87bf36b42ec145c720 (origin/master)
Checkout:workspace / C:\.hudson\jobs\sdf\workspace - hudson.remoting.LocalChannel#65394b
Fetching changes from the remote Git repository
Fetching upstream changes from ssh://git.mccannlondon.co.uk/git/mccann_admin
[workspace] $ "C:\Program Files\Git\bin\git.exe" fetch -t ssh://git.mccannlondon.co.uk/git/mccann_admin +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
The server's host key is not cached in the registry. You
have no guarantee that the server is the computer you
think it is.
The server's rsa2 key fingerprint is:
ssh-rsa 2048 f1:48:2a:0a:d9:18:cf:2e:f2:8c:b3:25:7f:34:d5:34
Connection abandoned.
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
ERROR: Problem fetching from origin / origin - could be unavailable. Continuing anyway
So it seems I need to authenticate the host however I'm not sure why hudson is starting the job as user anonymous when I have set the Administrator as owner of the hudson service.
Does anyone know:
a) how to change hudson's run user? or
b) connect to the remove computer with the same user account as hudson uses as to allow hudson to fetch?
If this has been posted before apologies but I spent a good few hours searching around and couldn't find anything.
Thanks
Lewis
This may be related to the question Git, Can’t clone repo on windows
The problem is that MSysGit starts PLink in the background, i.e. the terminal is not actually connected to the input of PLink. That means that you simply can't type anything into PLink.
You simply have to connect to the server once using PLink or PuTTY, answer Yes and from then on, you won't be asked again.
The tutorial from cletus can be helpful as well.
A good description of the issue can be found in this blog entry
the problem is that Hudson is a service and runs under the user "Local Service Account".
The next step is to add the trace manually the cache (a file) because I know you can do in Linux.
Wrong again, Windows does not have this cache as a file but uses the registry.
Searching in the register found an entry for my user (who had previously accessed the repository and added to the cache footprint) where the trace was stored and copied to HKEY_USERS so that users can access it.
The entry goes like this:
Key Name: HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\SimonTatham\PuTTY\SshHostKeys
Class Name: NO CLASS
Last Write Time: 23.01.2009 - 18:35
Value 0
Name: dss#22:bla_bla.com
Type: REG_SZ
Data: 0xb477b...
From the command line, you can easily add the key as follows:
reg add HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\SimonTatham\PuTTY\SshHostKeys /v dss#22:bla_bla.com /d 0xb477b...
Now Hudson, run as a service, go happily and smoothly to the repository where the code.
The 'started by anonymous' is telling you which Hudson user started the job. If you haven't created any Hudson users, then everything is started by 'anonymous'
It is not related to which OS user is executing the process.
You asked how to change the user that Hudson runs as: you need to edit the service (Control Panel->Administrative Tools->Services, double click the Hudson service and change the "Log On" to "This account").
Once the account is setup I make sure that the git server is in MINGW's (Git Bash's) ~hudson/.ssh/known_hosts, and that there's a ~hudson/.ssh/identity file in place. The only warning I have is that if you have cygwin installed on the box you need to make sure that %CYGWIN% is empty, otherwise you'll see key permission errors in the Hudson logs. My recommendation is that you simply set the CYGWIN environment variable to empty in Hudson.
I meet the same problem and after check git plugin, http://wiki.hudson-ci.org/display/HUDSON/Git+Plugin
It is stated to change the git path to /usr/bin/git in Global setting and config the git username
And it fixes my problem
Hope it works for you as well, by the way, I use ubuntu, but it should be the same