Hello, I am running Julia 0.7 on Ubuntu and when I try to clone a package, I get this problem: julia> using Pkg julia> Pkg.clone("git@github.com:eford/CORBITS.git") ┌ Warning: Pkg.clone is only kept for legacy CI script reasons, please use `add` └ @ Pkg.API /buildworker/worker/package_linux64/bui…

[image] danielc: Just running ssh-agent on the shell didn’t work. That “eval” bit seems to be required. Yes, that is how ssh-agent words. It isn’t nice, but it is how it works for everyone. (I am not a fan of ssh-agent)

Are you using a .ssh/config file to specify your git key? If so LibGit2 doesn’t read those. But command line git does. Both command line git, and LibGit2 do pay attention to your ssh-agent, if you have one running. I’ve also heard there is an environment variable you can set to tell julia the p…

No, I’m not using .ssh/config to specify the key. Git just seems to find it. It’s the only SSH key I have. And in any case, surely specifying a direct path to the key (like I did twice in the example I pasted) should tell LibGit2 where the key is.

The man page for ssh-agent says: ssh-agent is usually started in the beginning of an X-session or a login session I am currently connecting remotely to the computer that’s not working. Could that be the problem? Hmm… local_computer % echo $SSH_AGENT_PID 1414 local_computer % ssh remote_computer…

Hmm… I do have ssh-agent running: remote_computer ~/.ssh % ps x|grep ssh-agent 16090 ? Ss 0:00 ssh-agent 16118 ? Ss 0:00 ssh-agent 16185 pts/5 S+ 0:00 grep ssh-agent 27962 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/ssh-agent -D -a /run/user/710624/keyring/.ssh So… why can’t …

I found a magic incantation online. I don’t know what this does, but it worked: ~/.ssh % eval $(ssh-agent) > /dev/null ~/.ssh % ssh-add id_ed25519 ~/.ssh % ssh-add -l 256 SHA256:GBqs+SzszuFd8PdgDo34UYzOVGSgIIQ6QuI6ecyJ4bA duc299@e1-052367 (ED25519) ... julia> using Pkg julia> Pkg.clone("git@github…

Has anyone ever found any way to get this to use the keys properly? Is this a bug in LibGit2? It very much appears to be, as I have had this problem with multiple repos from multiple sources.

I got this problem too. I don’t quite understand the solution post …

The stated solution in this thread never worked for me. I have looked more into resolving this since my last posting. It still appears that there is no way of resolving it. From what I gather, this is simply a libgit2 bug, so there’s quite simply no way of getting the package manager to use priva…

[image] ExpandingMan: so there’s quite simply no way of getting the package manager to use private repos right now other than re-compiling Julia linked to a more recent version of libgit2 I’m not sure what is going wrong in your case but I have regularly used julia 0.6, 0.7, 1.0, and 1.1 wit…

I think it was you who told me that it only works if your key is in ~/.ssh/id_rsa and that only the command line ssh recognizes the config file. I still haven’t tested this. I wasn’t able to get it to work with ssh-agent the last time I tried it, but that was a while ago, so I hope to explore all …

Pkg.clone keeps asking for my SSH key

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oxinabox September 19, 2018, 6:43am 7

Yes,
that is how ssh-agent words.
It isn’t nice, but it is how it works for everyone.

(I am not a fan of ssh-agent)

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Pkg.clone keeps asking for my SSH key

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