Subject: Using a PuTTY config instead of Pageant
Original Post
x3r0ss
Hey,
I've been using github for a while now, but restarting pageant every time I boot isn't really something I like to do. and using another method with my other repos I was wondering if it's possible with github.
With my other private repositories I just use a session
configured in putty like ssh://SESSNAME/path/to/repo.git
How would I configure this to work with github as it has :xeross or
something similiar in the url I'm not sure how I should configure
it.
If anyone knows please help me out.
Thank you for your time, Xeross
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Support Staff 2 Posted by Tekkub on 04 Nov, 2009 03:42 AM
We don't officially support putty, you might want to try reinstalling msysgit with the default openssh instead. We have a guide for setting up keys with openssh. We also have a guide to working with key passphrases and ssh-agent. You would still have to open git bash and enter your passphrase after a reboot however, but if you're already working in bash that shouldn't be an issue.
As for the session/path stuff, everything after the "github.com" is the path to the repo, I'm not sure what you're trying to change.
3 Posted by Xeross on 04 Nov, 2009 06:58 PM
Well I have my own server configured with PuTTY and I can also authenticate on github, when double-clicking my putty session (Which has the key loaded) I get the message as expected (ERROR: Hi xeross! You've successfully authenticated, but GitHub does not provide shell access).
My GitHub putty session is called GitHub so I would basically need to do something like ssh://GitHub/path/to/something
Now I'm just wondering what that path should be. what's also confusing is that the github urls use git@github.com:xeross, I now git is the username and github.com is the url but what's the :xeross do, and how can I use that in PuTTY ?
If you ment with your reply that that's not possible sorry for the mistake, and yes I know how to bypass the passphrase, and I just need to make PageAnt boot.
Support Staff 4 Posted by Tekkub on 04 Nov, 2009 09:18 PM
git@github.com:user/repo.git and ssh://git@github.com/user/repo.git are essentially the same thing. Everything after the "github.com" is just the path to the repo.
5 Posted by Xeross on 04 Nov, 2009 09:39 PM
Ah thanks, I didn't do the /user/repo.git just repo.git, now I can probably get it to work, I'll test it tomorrow, thanks for your time.