Github Notes

Setup Github SSH Keys

Start in the <pipeline-root> directory

cd <pipeline-root>

Configure Git with your Email and Name

git config --global user.name "cfregly"

git config --global user.email "chris@fregly.com"

Update the Remote Origin URL to use ssh

cd <pipeline-root>

git remote set-url origin git@github.com:PipelineAI/pipeline.git

Setup Github SSH Keys

• SSH Keys are provided by Github through your Github account
• Put your private github_rsa and public github_rsa.pub keys into ~/.ssh/
• Modify permissions on this github_rsa file

chmod 600 ~/.ssh/github_rsa

Start your SSH Authentication Agent

eval $(ssh-agent -s)

Register SSH Keys Locally

• Run ssh-add and enter the passphrase used when creating the key pair

ssh-add ~/.ssh/github_rsa
Enter passphrase for ~/.ssh/github_rsa: <your-passphrase>

Troubleshooting

• If you see the following error, start from this step.

Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.

• If you see the following error, make sure you ran modified the permissions on your github_rsa file above

@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
@         WARNING: UNPROTECTED PRIVATE KEY FILE!          @
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
Permissions 0644 for '/root/.ssh/github_rsa' are too open.
It is required that your private key files are NOT accessible by others.
This private key will be ignored.