Day: 3 July 2020

There are many links for this in the Internet so I am not going to discover the fire but I struggled a bit so….

The official links from github were ok and other people did a very good job too documenting the process.

https://docs.github.com/en/github/authenticating-to-github/testing-your-ssh-connection

https://docs.github.com/en/github/authenticating-to-github/error-permission-denied-publickey

https://jdblischak.github.io/2014-09-18-chicago/novice/git/05-sshkeys.html

I had already a key that I wanted to use. So adding it to the repo was ok.

Testing it was my challenge. I was missing two things. My key wasn’t following the standard file name so it wasn’t used by my ssh-agent and then, i wasn’t using the “git” user when testing…. I was using my github username.

So add the key and check it is there.

$ ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_ed25519-gh
$ ssh-add -l -E md5
256 MD5:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:67:xx:6a:73:xx:8a:xx:7f:78:xx:xx user@gh (ED25519)

Check you can ssh to github.

$ ssh -T git@github.com
Hi xxxx! You've successfully authenticated, but GitHub does not provide shell access.
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Ok, all good now. But this is not a new repo, how I move from the “old” user/pass to the “new” ssh-key process?

You can clone the repo again using ssh:

Or you can change the git config locally in the “url” bit.

/ceos-testing/.git master$ cat config
[core]
repositoryformatversion = 0
filemode = true
bare = false
logallrefupdates = true
[remote "origin"]
#url = https://github.com/thomarite/ceos-testing.git
url = git@github.com:thomarite/ceos-testing.git
fetch = +refs/heads/:refs/remotes/origin/
[branch "master"]
remote = origin
merge = refs/heads/master
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After that you can “git push” using your ssh-key.

2023-01

Looks like I dont learn the lesson….

1- Create Key

$ ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "your@email.com"
Generating public/private ed25519 key pair.
Enter file in which to save the key (/home/USERNAME/.ssh/id_ed25519): /home/USERNAME/.ssh/id_ed25519.github

2- Upload key to Github

3- Start agent and add key

$ ssh-agent -s
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-XXXXXXjMtZn7/agent.250293; export SSH_AUTH_SOCK;
SSH_AGENT_PID=250294; export SSH_AGENT_PID;
echo Agent pid 250294;
$ ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.github
Identity added: /home/USERNAME/.ssh/id_ed25519.github (your@email.com)
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4- Authenticate to git

$ ssh -T git@github.com
Hi USERNAME! You've successfully authenticated, but GitHub does not provide shell access.
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5- Push to git. Be sure your repo is not using https! Change it as showed here.

$ git remote get-url origin
https://github.com/SOMEBODY/scripts.git
$ git remote set-url origin git@github.com:SOMEBODY/scripts.git
$ 
$ git remote get-url origin
git@github.com:SOMEBODY/scripts.git
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$ git push
Enumerating objects: 5, done.
Counting objects: 100% (5/5), done.
Delta compression using up to 4 threads
Compressing objects: 100% (4/4), done.
Writing objects: 100% (4/4), 2.07 KiB | 2.07 MiB/s, done.
Total 4 (delta 1), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0
remote: Resolving deltas: 100% (1/1), completed with 1 local object.
To github.com:SOMEBODY/scripts.git
   6a4cb1a..07a4a83  main -> main
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