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git over ssh keeps asking for password [message #1779664]

Thu, 11 January 2018 01:16

Dirk Olmes

Messages: 26
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

Hi,

we run our company internal git server via ssh. This used to work quite well up to the update to Eclipse 4.7.2. Now each time I fetch updates or push changes Eclipse keeps asking me for the ssh key password.

In earlier versions of Eclipse I was able to feed the ssh key into the ssh-agent and have Eclipse pick up the agent. The ssh-agent integration stopped working with the update to Eclipse Oxygen. I had to provide my password once when fetching updates for the first time.

What can I do to restore the old behaviour?

I'm running on linux BTW.

-dirk

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Re: git over ssh keeps asking for password [message #1779683 is a reply to message #1779664]

Thu, 11 January 2018 07:24

Dirk Olmes

Messages: 26
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

After some googling again I found a somewhat helpful mention of the GIT_SSH environment variable in https://wiki.eclipse.org/EGit/FAQ#Store_SSH_Key_Passphrase_in_Mac_Keyring

If export GIT_SSH=/usr/bin/ssh before launching Eclipse it will pick up the ssh key from the agent!

-dirk

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