I am trying to use a deployment php script on my shared linux server to pull in a private repo from github.com using their web-hooks feature, using ssh for the first time.
essentially: everytime i commit to github the web-hook sends a post request to my php file, i want to use this to issue a simple git pull command, thus keeping my server and github in sync and meaning I have a decent workflow that will help me stop editing stuff on a production server.
I am using terminal for my ssh connections.
I used ssh to go to my server and create a clone of my private repo and this worked.
I can, therefore, ssh in to my server and issue a git pull and it works perfectly. But of course i would like to automate this process. If I can get this to work I would like to do the same for a couple of other repos.
I have followed github's guide on creating keys and adding them to ssh keys section of my account on github.com, i can see the keys exist in /.ssh/ folder on my host. the private keys have chmod 600, public keys are 644. I have deleted these, recreated new ones and deleted/re-added the public keys on github several times.
I have currently have these keys:
1024 03:c4:16:45:40:77:a4:94:a4:... /home/username/.ssh/id_dsa (DSA)
2048 b3:62:87:e0:4b:39:aa:06:97... /home/username/.ssh/id_github (RSA)
I have a /.ssh/config file with the following (in the hope github uses the id_github key based on this SO answer:
# Default GitHub
Host github_server
HostName github.com
user git
ForwardAgent yes
PreferredAuthentications publickey
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_github
and i have updated my .git/config to change the command to git@github_server:username/repo
I have copied the keys to authorized_keys using
cat id_github.pub >> authorized_keys
But when i make a commit I get an email saying permissions denied (publickey) (my php script issues emails for success/failure and is based on this repo:
this uses a simple git pull in a shell_exec function I have added 2>&1 to the end for debugging.
I changed my command to (trying to add the key for the user)
`ssh-add -l git pull 2>&1`
and got the message
`Could not open a connection to your authentication agent.`
So I then attempted to start the ssh-agent using
`eval $(ssh-agent) ssh-add ssh-add -l git pull`
it returns an agent pid.
Agent pid 944568
ssh-add: No such file or directory
-l: No such file or directory
git: No such file or directory
pull: No such file or directory
no good, so i tried just:
`eval $(ssh-agent) ssh-add git pull`
and that returned:
Agent pid 949815
git: No such file or directory
pull: No such file or directory
and for completion just this:
`eval $(ssh-agent) ssh-add -l git pull`
and that returned:
Agent pid 952014
The agent has no identities.
additionally at some point, trying anything,
**edit: later worked out it was this: [^] **
eval $(ssh-agent) ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_github git pull 2>&1
i added something else to my command that gave me this:
Agent pid 940365
Enter passphrase for /home/username/.ssh/id_github:
ssh-add: No such file or directory
-l: No such file or directory
git: No such file or directory
pull: No such file or directory
which suggests i need to add the passphrase for the user and then it would work using the keys, but how can i do this from a php shell_exec command without it being a security issue?
to me this also implies my keys are not set for this user correctly but the output below suggest it is.
more info:
running ps aux | grep ssh shows quite a few ssh-agents listed. I don't know if this is a problem
940006 0.0 0.0 57708 784 ? Ss 23:22 0:00 ssh-agent
940365 0.0 0.0 57708 768 ? Ss 23:24 0:00 ssh-agent
944222 0.0 0.0 57708 784 ? Ss 23:42 0:00 ssh-agent
944568 0.0 0.0 57708 772 ? Ss 23:44 0:00 ssh-agent
944854 0.0 0.0 57708 772 ? Ss 23:45 0:00 ssh-agent
945103 0.0 0.0 57708 772 ? Ss 23:47 0:00 ssh-agent
945188 0.0 0.0 57708 784 ? Ss 23:47 0:00 ssh-agent
running the following command based on this SO answer on ssh
# ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_github -vT git@github.com
i get this...
OpenSSH_5.3p1, OpenSSL 1.0.1e-fips 11 Feb 2013
debug1: Reading configuration data /home/username/.ssh/config
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: Applying options for *
debug1: Connecting to github.com [192.30.252.129] port 22.
debug1: Connection established.
debug1: identity file /home/username/.ssh/id_github type 1
debug1: identity file /home/username/.ssh/id_github-cert type -1
debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version OpenSSH_5.9p1 Debian- 5ubuntu1+github5
debug1: match: OpenSSH_5.9p1 Debian-5ubuntu1+github5 pat OpenSSH*
debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0
debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_5.3
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT received
debug1: kex: server->client aes128-ctr hmac-md5 none
debug1: kex: client->server aes128-ctr hmac-md5 none
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REQUEST(1024<1024<8192) sent
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_GROUP
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_INIT sent
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REPLY
debug1: Host 'github.com' is known and matches the RSA host key.
debug1: Found key in /home/username/.ssh/known_hosts:2
debug1: ssh_rsa_verify: signature correct
...
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey
debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
debug1: Offering public key: /home/username/.ssh/id_github
debug1: Server accepts key: pkalg ssh-rsa blen 277
debug1: Authentication succeeded (publickey).
debug1: channel 0: new [client-session]
debug1: Requesting no-more-sessions@openssh.com
...
debug1: client_input_channel_req: channel 0 rtype exit-status reply 0
debug1: client_input_channel_req: channel 0 rtype eow@openssh.com reply 0
Hi username! You've successfully authenticated, but GitHub does not provide shell access.
debug1: channel 0: free: client-session, nchannels 1
Transferred: sent 2440, received 2920 bytes, in 0.2 seconds
Bytes per second: sent 12993.2, received 15549.2
debug1: Exit status 1
I've trimmed out some of the stuff i didn't think was relevant, it looks like the keys exist and are accepted - which is the important bit right?
So what am i missing?
p.s. i definitely have the keys added to github.
thanks
^ edit
running this: eval $(ssh-agent) ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_github in terminal returned:
Agent pid 958924
Enter passphrase for /home/username/.ssh/id_github: (i added passphrase)
Identity added: /home/username/.ssh/id_github (/home/username/.ssh/id_github)
UPDATE:
I deleted all my keys, started again with a keygen using the default id_rsa filename, I left the passphrase blank and it works!! Email received and a git pull command and a test file deployed. Super.
Looking at github guidance for passphrases I went in and edited my key adding a passphrase and i'm back to square one. Permission denied (publickey).
