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jnbdz
jnbdz

Reputation: 4383

Git enter long passphrase for every push

Every time I try to push anything to GitHub it asks me the address [email protected]:... and after that it wants the passphrase. Is there a way to automate this?

I am using Linux Ubuntu.

Upvotes: 40

Views: 13504

Answers (3)

James
James

Reputation: 4737

Another way to use the ssh-agent and ssh-add commands to add your private identity to the authentication agent.

$ eval "$(ssh-agent -s)"
Agent pid 1174
$ ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa
Enter passphrase for /home/james/.ssh/id_rsa: 
Identity added: /home/james/.ssh/id_rsa (/home/james/.ssh/id_rsa)

Upvotes: 0

Felipe
Felipe

Reputation: 17181

It is because you are using HTTPS (something like https://github.com/felipelalli/private.git) instead SSH (something like [email protected]:felipelalli/private.git).

If need to clone the SSH and then authorize your machine following theses steps: https://help.github.com/articles/generating-ssh-keys

Upvotes: 1

El Yobo
El Yobo

Reputation: 14946

You can use ssh-agent to remember your passphrase (Gnome automatically runs this for you, normally...).

$ ssh-agent bash
$ ssh-add 
Enter passphrase for /home/elyobo/.ssh/id_rsa: 
Identity added: /home/elyobo/.ssh/id_rsa (/home/elyobo/.ssh/id_rsa)

From now on, from within the terminal that you run this, your pass phrase will be remembered.

Ideally you'd get it working automatically, so all shells running within gnome would work; check out Gnome Keyring.

Upvotes: 85

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