load ssh-agent automatically for git private repos

Spidey Catalin

• December 29, 2020 15:06

In my cPanel user files, I'm using a private BitBucket repository. In order to connect to it, I have created an SSH public/private key pair using the cPanel user interface so I can use them as a way to connect to my remote repository. The problem is that I wasn't able to connect to the remote repo usng ssh keys, so after I googled a lot, I found that my ssh-agent is not loaded so I used: eval `ssh-agent -s` ssh-add ~/.ssh/myCustomPrivateKey
Then it asks me the password for the private key and only after these I'm able to use my repository (push/pull..). And everytime I need to update my repo (ex. to pull the latest changes) I need to exececute those commands to start the ssh-agent and then to add the private key as an identity to it. How can I skip this manual start of ssh-agent .. or in the end I just wanna use my repo through ssh keys.

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  cPRex Jurassic Moderator

  • December 29, 2020 20:20

  Hey there! How about adding these to the bash profile or bashrc files for the user, such as what is outlined here?

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  Spidey Catalin

  • December 29, 2020 20:38

  Hey there! How about adding these to the bash profile or bashrc files for the user, such as what is outlined here?

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  cPRex Jurassic Moderator

  • December 29, 2020 20:47

  Thanks for the additional thoughts. I read through a few of the Bitbucket docs and they do use a key, so you'd need make the SSH connection happen with a key in some way. If you plan to use that user almost exclusively for the repo access, the automation I thought of might be the easiest way.

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  Spidey Catalin

  • December 29, 2020 20:53

  Yes, you're right.. I think that's the easiest way. Thank you. I appreciate your help :)

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  cPRex Jurassic Moderator

  • December 29, 2020 20:54

  Sure thing!

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