Git Asks for Password Whenever I Pull or Push
My git asks for password every time I pull or push even with ssh configured.
I already set all my ssh keys and used ssh for git. The repo is stored on a linux server in my office. With everything set, I expected the ssh key to work and I don’t need to type in password.
However, git asks for password each time I pull or push, which made me very curious.
What I found is that I should use the short ssh name defined in ssh config instead of the full ssh path in git.
For example, I have an ssh account [email protected]
. For convenience, I defined a short name for it.
Host mksunshine
Hostname urmy.sunshine.com
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa_sunshine
User mk
If I use the full ssh path in git, such as
[remote "origin"]
url = [email protected]:~/gitserver/mkrepo.git
fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
the git program seems to ignore the ssh settings and will ask for password.
To fix this problem, simply change the full ssh path in git config to the short name.
[remote "origin"]
url = mksunshine:~/gitserver/mkrepo.git
fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
Damn. I spent almost an hour on this problem.
L Ma (2017). 'Git Asks for Password Whenever I Pull or Push', Datumorphism, 05 April. Available at: https://datumorphism.leima.is/til/programming/git/git-ssh-asking-pwd-everytime/.