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Pragmatic Version Control Using Git
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Pragmatic Version Control Using Git

by Travis Swicegood
December 2008
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
184 pages
4h 47m
English
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11.3 Creating Administrator Credentials

You must create a SSH public key for your admin user on Gitosis. A SSH public key is used by SSH to verify your connection instead of using a password.

If you already have a public key that you use with SSH, you can use that now instead of creating a new one. If not, you will need to create a key. Keys can be created from the command line by using the ssh-keygen command.

You need this command on your local computer, the one you use to connect to your server running Gitosis. You can generate your key by running the following from the command line:

 
​prompt> ssh-keygen -t rsa

The program will prompt you for the location where you want to store the new key. The default location is fine, so ...

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