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Bug 361342 - Avoid repeated SSH password entry
Summary: Avoid repeated SSH password entry
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Community
Classification: Eclipse Foundation
Component: Git (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified   Edit
Hardware: All All
: P3 enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Eclipse Webmaster CLA
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Reported: 2011-10-19 03:01 EDT by Caspar D. CLA
Modified: 2011-10-24 22:05 EDT (History)
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Description Caspar D. CLA 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 CLA 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. CLA 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 CLA 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. CLA 2011-10-24 22:05:40 EDT 
It works.

Thanks a lot!