GIT over ssh with identity file

GIT over ssh with identity file

[oliverw]

Forgive me if this has been answered before. I've searched everywhere but
couldn't find a solution.

Is it somehow possible to pass your private key file to git when working
over ssh. What I have in mind would be something like this:

git -i /path/to/private/key clone ssh://homer@foo.bar.com/var/git/repos.git 

Since I want to use this on a server I would like to avoid using a password
caching agent at all cost.

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Re: GIT over ssh with identity file

[Junio C Hamano]

oliverw <oliver@weichhold.com> writes:

> Forgive me if this has been answered before. I've searched everywhere but
> couldn't find a solution.
>
> Is it somehow possible to pass your private key file to git when working
> over ssh. What I have in mind would be something like this:
>
> git -i /path/to/private/key clone ssh://homer@foo.bar.com/var/git/repos.git 

I think the standard way people use for things like this is something
along the lines of...

    $ cat >>$HOME/.ssh/config <<\EOF
    Host homer-at-foo
      Hostname foo.bar.com
      User homer
      IdentityFile ~/.ssh/homer-at-foo.pub
    EOF
    $ git clone homer-at-foo:/var/git/repos.git

Re: GIT over ssh with identity file

[Matthieu Moy]

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

>     $ cat >>$HOME/.ssh/config <<\EOF
>     Host homer-at-foo
>       Hostname foo.bar.com
>       User homer
>       IdentityFile ~/.ssh/homer-at-foo.pub

(I think you have an extra .pub here, the identity file should be the
private key).

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Re: GIT over ssh with identity file

[Junio C Hamano]

Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> writes:

> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>
>>     $ cat >>$HOME/.ssh/config <<\EOF
>>     Host homer-at-foo
>>       Hostname foo.bar.com
>>       User homer
>>       IdentityFile ~/.ssh/homer-at-foo.pub
>
> (I think you have an extra .pub here, the identity file should be the
> private key).

Yeah, you are right.  I am too tired and should have gone to bed 90
minutes ago.