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RileyE
RileyE

Reputation: 11084

How to make Git not ask me for password when accessing remote repositories?

I've been looking at a few different SO posts and other forums for an explanation of how to prevent git from constantly asking for my password whenever I interact with my remote repository, but all I understood was that I need to create ssh key.

Upvotes: 8

Views: 7908

Answers (2)

user456814
user456814

Reputation:

If you want to make your private key more secure, a passphrase is used to encrypt it. You can actually use ssh-agent to store your passphrase once for a terminal/console session, so you don't have to keep entering it all the time.

You'll need to use eval `ssh-agent -s` to start the agent, ssh-add to enter your passphrase for your private key, and then ssh-agent -k to kill the agent when you're done. It even comes with a timeout, ssh-add -t <timeout>, where <timeout> can be something like Xh for X hours, Xm for X minutes, and so on.

ssh-agent is available on msysGit and Cygwin. I'm not sure about its availability on other platforms like Unix/Linux/*nix systems and Apple OSX.

You can read more about ssh-agent usage from this Stack Overflow answer and this Stack Overflow answer, as well as googling around for instructions online.

Upvotes: 10

fm2munsh
fm2munsh

Reputation: 203

Create an SSH Key but don't enter a passphrase when it asks you to

https://help.github.com/articles/generating-ssh-keys

^ In step two of that article just press enter when it asks for a password

Upvotes: 7

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