Git not storing credentials when sshed into server - linux

I have a ubuntu VM which I SSH into from a windows machine to develop on. I have my windows pub key on the linux VM so I can ssh without password.
On the linux machine I have set to store my git credentials. When I do any git command on the VM directly, it is able to use the stored credentials and carries out the given task. However, if I ssh into the VM from windows, and try to do any git command, it never stores the credentials and each time I have to reenter the password.
What is causing this and is there a way to fix it?

Compare the output of git config --show-scope --show-origin credential.helper when:
you are logged in directly on the Linux server
you are logged in through SSH from Windows
This assumes that, in both instances, you are using an HTTPS URL from your Linux server when using git clone/push/pull to a remote server.
If the Git on Linux is not recent enough, use simply git config --global credential.helper.

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Is it necessary to create a user named 'git' to setup a git server?

git#domain already exists in my university network.
However, the Ubuntu 18.04 server that host git#domain is very unstable.
So I wished to set up a Debian server and install with Git.
Can I use hostname other than git to setup Git server?
It is necessary to create git user account for Git server to work?
Because I read many guides[1][2][3], all of them ask to run adduser git command.
It is recommended to create a dedicated account (for security reason as commented)
However, nothing in Git involves a specific user name.
And git#aserver can be seen as an SSH URL, which means there would not even be a "Git server", but simply an sshd (SSH daemon) listening for queries in order to access repositories owned by that account( be it named 'git' or any other name)

How do I use the right key for SSH, connecting from Git Bash on Windows to remote server?

I'm trying to push my project on git to my remote Linux server from my local Windows PC.
I have no issues connecting to my server through SSH when I use PuTTY. But PuTTY is only for the remote server, and doesn't let me look in my own local pc - so I can't access my git repository to push from.
Instead I've been trying with Git Bash, where I go to the repository(master) of my git project, and then attempt "git push production master". Receiving "Permission denied (publickey)" in response in Git Bash.
I have loaded by private key from my user/.ssh folder on local pc, using PuTTYgen, copy/pasted the public key it shows into my Github account's SSH-keys.
This is the same key that I use for connecting with PuTTY(which works).
If I use "git remote -v" in Git Bash, I receive what is the correct url for the server:
"
production ssh://notacop#mafiauniversedata.com/var/repo/site.git (fetch)
production ssh://notacop#mafiauniversedata.com/var/repo/site.git (push)
"
"notacop" is the admin user I made instead of root, which is also the one that I use in PuTTY.
If I attempt "ssh notacop#mafiauniversedata.com" in Git Bash I also receive the "Permission denied (publickey)" response. So seemingly the issue is related to the publickey that Git Bash uses, as it can't connect at all.
My user/.ssh folder contains:
digitalocean_private_key (is the one PuTTY uses/the one generated by PuTTYgen) + digitalocean_public_key
github_rsa + github_rsa.pub
id_rsa + id_rsa.pub
known_hosts
I feel like I've set things up in accordance with the general guidelines, and it does work in PuTTY, so the issue must be related to Git Bash and how Git Bash establishes ssh connection.
But I'm fairly clueless about how to fix the issue, and haven't been able to find a solution from searching. My guess is that it's something fairly simple, but I've been stuck on this for a couple weeks now, not getting anywhere because of it.
Any answers that can lead me in the right direction will be highly appreciated!
If anything about my question is unclear, or you need more information to answer, please let me know.
I don't know why Git Bash's own ssh doesn't seem to work for you,
but I have a better recommendation: make Git Bash use PuTTY, by setting the GIT_SSH environment variable to the path of plink.exe (that's not a typo, it's not putty.exe, but another executable that comes with the zip of PuTTY tools).
The main advantage and reason to do this is so that Git Bash can benefit from pagent.exe, the key manager of PuTTY.
So that you can enter your passphrase once,
when adding your private key to Pagent,
and then you don't need to re-enter it every time you perform remote operations in Git Bash.

How to allow jenkins from local machine to run remote python test scripts

I have a jenkins running on my local centos machine.
I have configured my local jenkins and was able to run a successful local build .
Now, i want to run remote tests which are python scripts on a remote centos machine which is not having jenkins installed. also, i dont want to install any jenkins process on the remote linux system as it is "like a" production server and am advised not to install any apps on it.
How do i use my local jenkins to run a build to execute those remote tests and report/output on my local jenkins console.
Do i need to use jenkins master-slave architecture ? if yes, how do i configure that given my above requirement.
You might want to have a look at this:
https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Distributed+builds
for you req, precisely this part:
https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Distributed+builds#Distributedbuilds-Launchslaveagentheadlessly
However, i believe you still have to have java on your slave unix node to run the slave.jar on it
This answer is assuming the scripts are in GitHub. May it helps to think in your case.
So.. First you need to install Git in you server machine by:
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install git
Now you need to get the path of Git by $ which git
it will give like "/usr/local/bin/git"
copy that path into ManageJenkins->Global Tool Configuration-> in the git section, paste into "Path to Git executable".
it will allows you to access git sources.
Now you need to provive SSH keys.
Type sudo su- jenkins in you remote machine.You have to generate ssh key for "jenkins" user.
Now add public key to GitHub account(You can see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vi-WqFKYpnw).
and add the private key to Jenkins by
Go to Credentials
Click in Global in Stores scoped
Add Credentials
Kind: SSH Username with private key
Username: your server username
Private Key: give the private key of user "Jenkins"
Specify ID as "jenkins-private-key" or anything else to identify
Now
Go to job configuration->select credentials that you have created and
Copy the ssh url of repository(Where you scripts are stored) Now you can run the scripts which are stored in Git.

How to setup and clone a remote git repo on Windows?

Anybody know how to checkout, clone, or fetch project or code from a git remote repository on a Windows server?
Repository IP is: xxx.xx.xxx.xx, source file directory is c:\repos\project.git
I am used to the command line interface from a SUSE Linux terminal. I have tried the same kind of method but it always replies that
fatal: ''/repo/project.git'' does not appear to be a git repository
fatal: Could not read from remote repository..
Please make sure you have the correct access rights
Can anyone tell me how to setup and clone?
You have to set up some kind of sharing from the windows machine, that you can access with git. Git supports 3 access methods: ssh, remote filesystem or http. The last one is probably most complicated, so I won't detail it. The first two are:
Set up ssh server on windows.
You can try this guide: http://www.timdavis.com.au/git/setting-up-a-msysgit-server-with-copssh-on-windows/. See also this question for some more options.
Than you clone by git clone username#xxx.xx.xxx.xx:/c/git/path/to/repo (you will be asked for password).
Advantage of this method is that it's secure (connection is encrypted and ssh server is trustworthy), so you can use it over internet. Since git server is running on the windows machine during access, you can set up hooks for advanced security policy, controlling other processes and such.
Share the repository using windows sharing.
Than on the linux host, you need to mount the share with smbmount. That might require username and password, depending on how you set the permissions.
Than you clone by git clone /share/mountpoint/path/to/repo.
This is probably easier to set up, but it is not very secure, so it shouldn't be used outside local network. Also in this case hooks on the windows machine won't be executed (in fact git will try to execute them on the Linux machine, but they either won't run there or can be bypassed anyway), so you can't apply advanced security.
A particular file is not relevant, you need to give path to the directory containing .git subdirectory or to the directory that is a bare repository (path/to/repo above).
First of all, the git repository is just a bunch of files you need to access. You wrote about cloning and fetching repository, and this is easy part - you just need to access the files (and have read rights).
It can be done by direct access to filesystem, by http(s) protocol, or by ssh connection. Actually, there is even a way to do it by ftp server.
What you can do:
1) set the ssh server, then access the git files via ssh server - actually, the path you should use depends on the ssh server you use on windows: source
2) set the web server to access the file:
git clone http://host/path/to/repo
3) mount filesystem from windows on your linux machine and clone repo:
git clone /mnt/filesystem/path/to/repo
Despite the method you choose I suggest to consult the apropriate chapter from Pro Git Book

Clone TFS-GIT repository to GIT repository (Linux) by using GIT

We have Redhat Linux server, GIT was already installed on this server and we need to create a local repository.
We have TFS-GIT project in TFS 2015, we need to clone the TFS-GIT repository to the GIT repository on Linux by using GIT commands.
For this task, we created a empty local repository on Linux, and configured the basic authentication and configured the SSL certification by using server manager.
Still getting "Fatal: authentication error" to connecting TFS-GIT repository on windows server 2012 . We tried in different ways but still we are getting same error.
Am using my basic credentials like which I used for server logins and I have only id and password for everything.
Is there any specific kind of passsord I need to use for this?
Please advise me on this
Thanks in advance
You have done all as it should be.
You need to copy your public key of the desired user to the Unix server as well so it will work.
How to setup ssh-key?
# generate the key (local machine)
ssh-keygen -t rsa
# copy the generated key to your unix machine (server)
# the key is in : %HOME%/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
# In widows its under your user account: Users/<user_name>
Other ways
If you have only username and password you might need to use http/https.
Read here how to set it up/

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