4.3 Git on the Server — Generating Your SSH Public Key
Many Git servers authenticate using SSH public keys. In order to provide a public key, each user in your system must generate one if they don’t already have one. This process is similar across all operating systems. First, you should check to make sure you don’t already have a key. By default, a user’s SSH keys are stored in that user’s ~/.ssh directory. You can easily check to see if you have a key already by going to that directory and listing the contents:
$ cd ~/.ssh $ ls authorized_keys2 id_dsa known_hosts config id_dsa.pubYou’re looking for a pair of files named something like id_dsa or id_rsa and a matching file with a .pub extension. The .pub file is your public key, and the other file is the corresponding private key. If you don’t have these files (or you don’t even have a .ssh directory), you can create them by running a program called ssh-keygen , which is provided with the SSH package on Linux/macOS systems and comes with Git for Windows:
$ ssh-keygen -o Generating public/private rsa key pair. Enter file in which to save the key (/home/schacon/.ssh/id_rsa): Created directory '/home/schacon/.ssh'. Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase): Enter same passphrase again: Your identification has been saved in /home/schacon/.ssh/id_rsa. Your public key has been saved in /home/schacon/.ssh/id_rsa.pub. The key fingerprint is: d0:82:24:8e:d7:f1:bb:9b:33:53:96:93:49:da:9b:e3 schacon@mylaptop.localFirst it confirms where you want to save the key ( .ssh/id_rsa ), and then it asks twice for a passphrase, which you can leave empty if you don’t want to type a password when you use the key. However, if you do use a password, make sure to add the -o option; it saves the private key in a format that is more resistant to brute-force password cracking than is the default format. You can also use the ssh-agent tool to prevent having to enter the password each time.
Now, each user that does this has to send their public key to you or whoever is administrating the Git server (assuming you’re using an SSH server setup that requires public keys). All they have to do is copy the contents of the .pub file and email it. The public keys look something like this:
$ cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABIwAAAQEAklOUpkDHrfHY17SbrmTIpNLTGK9Tjom/BWDSU GPl+nafzlHDTYW7hdI4yZ5ew18JH4JW9jbhUFrviQzM7xlELEVf4h9lFX5QVkbPppSwg0cda3 Pbv7kOdJ/MTyBlWXFCR+HAo3FXRitBqxiX1nKhXpHAZsMciLq8V6RjsNAQwdsdMFvSlVK/7XA t3FaoJoAsncM1Q9x5+3V0Ww68/eIFmb1zuUFljQJKprrX88XypNDvjYNby6vw/Pb0rwert/En mZ+AW4OZPnTPI89ZPmVMLuayrD2cE86Z/il8b+gw3r3+1nKatmIkjn2so1d01QraTlMqVSsbx NrRFi9wrf+M7Q== schacon@mylaptop.local4.3 Git on the Server — Generating Your SSH Public Key
Many Git servers authenticate using SSH public keys. In order to provide a public key, each user in your system must generate one if they don’t already have one. This process is similar across all operating systems. First, you should check to make sure you don’t already have a key. By default, a user’s SSH keys are stored in that user’s ~/.ssh directory. You can easily check to see if you have a key already by going to that directory and listing the contents:
$ cd ~/.ssh $ ls authorized_keys2 id_dsa known_hosts config id_dsa.pubYou’re looking for a pair of files named something like id_dsa or id_rsa and a matching file with a .pub extension. The .pub file is your public key, and the other file is the corresponding private key. If you don’t have these files (or you don’t even have a .ssh directory), you can create them by running a program called ssh-keygen , which is provided with the SSH package on Linux/macOS systems and comes with Git for Windows:
$ ssh-keygen -o Generating public/private rsa key pair. Enter file in which to save the key (/home/schacon/.ssh/id_rsa): Created directory '/home/schacon/.ssh'. Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase): Enter same passphrase again: Your identification has been saved in /home/schacon/.ssh/id_rsa. Your public key has been saved in /home/schacon/.ssh/id_rsa.pub. The key fingerprint is: d0:82:24:8e:d7:f1:bb:9b:33:53:96:93:49:da:9b:e3 schacon@mylaptop.localFirst it confirms where you want to save the key ( .ssh/id_rsa ), and then it asks twice for a passphrase, which you can leave empty if you don’t want to type a password when you use the key. However, if you do use a password, make sure to add the -o option; it saves the private key in a format that is more resistant to brute-force password cracking than is the default format. You can also use the ssh-agent tool to prevent having to enter the password each time.
Now, each user that does this has to send their public key to you or whoever is administrating the Git server (assuming you’re using an SSH server setup that requires public keys). All they have to do is copy the contents of the .pub file and email it. The public keys look something like this:
$ cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABIwAAAQEAklOUpkDHrfHY17SbrmTIpNLTGK9Tjom/BWDSU GPl+nafzlHDTYW7hdI4yZ5ew18JH4JW9jbhUFrviQzM7xlELEVf4h9lFX5QVkbPppSwg0cda3 Pbv7kOdJ/MTyBlWXFCR+HAo3FXRitBqxiX1nKhXpHAZsMciLq8V6RjsNAQwdsdMFvSlVK/7XA t3FaoJoAsncM1Q9x5+3V0Ww68/eIFmb1zuUFljQJKprrX88XypNDvjYNby6vw/Pb0rwert/En mZ+AW4OZPnTPI89ZPmVMLuayrD2cE86Z/il8b+gw3r3+1nKatmIkjn2so1d01QraTlMqVSsbx NrRFi9wrf+M7Q== schacon@mylaptop.local4.3 Git на сервере — Генерация открытого SSH ключа
Как отмечалось ранее, многие Git-серверы используют аутентификацию по открытым SSH-ключам. Для того чтобы предоставить открытый ключ, каждый пользователь в системе должен его сгенерировать, если только этого уже не было сделано ранее. Этот процесс аналогичен во всех операционных системах. Сначала вам стоит убедиться, что у вас ещё нет ключа. По умолчанию пользовательские SSH ключи сохраняются в каталоге ~/.ssh домашнем каталоге пользователя. Вы можете легко проверить наличие ключа перейдя в этот каталог и посмотрев его содержимое:
$ cd ~/.ssh $ ls authorized_keys2 id_dsa known_hosts config id_dsa.pubИщите файл с именем id_dsa или id_rsa и соответствующий ему файл с расширением .pub . Файл с расширением .pub — это ваш открытый ключ, а второй файл — ваш приватный ключ. Если указанные файлы у вас отсутствуют (или даже нет каталога .ssh ), вы можете создать их используя программу ssh-keygen , которая входит в состав пакета SSH в системах Linux/Mac, а для Windows поставляется вместе с Git:
$ ssh-keygen -o Generating public/private rsa key pair. Enter file in which to save the key (/home/schacon/.ssh/id_rsa): Created directory '/home/schacon/.ssh'. Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase): Enter same passphrase again: Your identification has been saved in /home/schacon/.ssh/id_rsa. Your public key has been saved in /home/schacon/.ssh/id_rsa.pub. The key fingerprint is: d0:82:24:8e:d7:f1:bb:9b:33:53:96:93:49:da:9b:e3 schacon@mylaptop.localСначала программа попросит указать расположение файла для сохранения ключа ( .ssh/id_rsa ), затем дважды ввести пароль для шифрования. Если вы не хотите вводить пароль каждый раз при использовании ключа, то можете оставить его пустым или использовать программу ssh-agent . Если вы решили использовать пароль для приватного ключа, то настоятельно рекомендуется использовать опцию -o , которая позволяет сохранить ключ в формате, более устойчивом ко взлому методом подбора, чем стандартный формат.
Теперь каждый пользователь должен отправить свой открытый ключ вам или тому, кто администрирует Git-сервер (подразумевается, что ваш SSH-сервер уже настроен на работу с открытыми ключами). Для этого достаточно скопировать содержимое файла с расширением .pub и отправить его по электронной почте. Открытый ключ выглядит примерно так:
$ cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABIwAAAQEAklOUpkDHrfHY17SbrmTIpNLTGK9Tjom/BWDSU GPl+nafzlHDTYW7hdI4yZ5ew18JH4JW9jbhUFrviQzM7xlELEVf4h9lFX5QVkbPppSwg0cda3 Pbv7kOdJ/MTyBlWXFCR+HAo3FXRitBqxiX1nKhXpHAZsMciLq8V6RjsNAQwdsdMFvSlVK/7XA t3FaoJoAsncM1Q9x5+3V0Ww68/eIFmb1zuUFljQJKprrX88XypNDvjYNby6vw/Pb0rwert/En mZ+AW4OZPnTPI89ZPmVMLuayrD2cE86Z/il8b+gw3r3+1nKatmIkjn2so1d01QraTlMqVSsbx NrRFi9wrf+M7Q== schacon@mylaptop.localБолее подробное руководство по созданию SSH-ключей и конфигурации клиента на различных системах вы можете найти в руководстве GitHub.