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Bug 361342

Summary:	Avoid repeated SSH password entry
Product:	Community	Reporter:	Caspar D. <caspar_d>
Component:	Git	Assignee:	Eclipse Webmaster <webmaster>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	martin.fluegge, stepper
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description Caspar D.

2011-10-19 03:01:42 EDT

Currently, when working with the command-line Git tools (not EGit)
and Eclipse.org's Git server over an SSH connection, I need to enter
my password for every remote operation.

Can this be fixed somehow?

The obvious way would be to allow key authentication. For that I'd have to
put my public key in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on the server, but I can't do
that because I have no shell access to git.eclipse.org.

If there's another way (perhaps a client-side Git or SSH trick that
I don't know of), then I'd also be happy to hear about that.

Comment 1 Denis Roy

2011-10-19 08:29:41 EDT

Email your public key to webmaster@eclipse.org and we'll put it in place for you.  Alternatively, we can give you a shell temporarily and you can upload it yourself.

Comment 2 Caspar D.

2011-10-19 23:16:41 EDT

(In reply to comment #1)
> Email your public key to webmaster@eclipse.org and we'll put it in place for
> you.  Alternatively, we can give you a shell temporarily and you can upload it
> yourself.

Excellent. I just emailed you my public RSA key.

Thanks very much.

Comment 3 Eclipse Webmaster

2011-10-20 09:34:31 EDT

Ok, I've added you public key to the server, and you should be all set.

-M.

Comment 4 Caspar D.

2011-10-24 22:05:40 EDT

It works.

Thanks a lot!