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Bug 334926

Summary:

EGit asks me for password even when public key is used

Product:

[Technology] EGit

Reporter:

Tomasz Zarna <tomasz.zarna>

Component:

Core

Assignee:

Project Inbox <egit.core-inbox>

Status:

RESOLVED INVALID

QA Contact:

Severity:

normal

Priority:

Version:

unspecified

Target Milestone:

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Hardware:

OS:

Windows XP

Whiteboard:

Attachments:

Description	Flags
Cloning in msysgit	none
Cloning in EGit	none

Description Tomasz Zarna

2011-01-20 12:01:34 EST

JGit+EGit 0.11.0.201101140331

I'm under Windows, running cygwin with ssh daemon. I've uploaded my public key to .ssh, so each time I do "git clone ssh://..." in msysgit I'm asked to enter a passphrase for the key. This is fine, but when I enter the same URI in EGit I'm asked for my password (not the passphrase).

Does git honor authentication methods order from "Network connections > SSH2 > Authentication Methods (tab)"? iiuc, the situation described above could happen only when the "publickey" method had been manually set as less preferred than "password".

Is it related to bug 326526?

Comment 1 Tomasz Zarna

2011-01-20 12:02:50 EST

Created attachment 187213 [details]
Cloning in msysgit

Comment 2 Tomasz Zarna

2011-01-20 12:03:16 EST

Created attachment 187214 [details]
Cloning in EGit

Comment 3 Tomasz Zarna

2011-01-21 05:38:28 EST

I had SSH2 home set to "$HOME/ssh", which was empty. After resetting the preference to "$HOME/.ssh", where my private key actually is, EGit asked me for the passphrase.

The ssh/.ssh issue (bug 294925) may be really confusing. Marking this one as invalid.