[Buildbot-devel] Configuring ssh keys for buildbot service account (for git)

[John Carr]

I believe the home directory is /var/lib/buildbot, and it should have been created by the deb package.

John

On 2 May 2013, at 07:40, Kenneth Baltrinic <kenneth at baltrinic.com> wrote:

> I figure I must be missing something really obvious but I can't figure this out.  I have installed builtbot on ubuntu 12.10 using the apt-get. This installed buildbot, created a buildbot service account and configured it to start up at the appropriate runlevels.  All very nice. :-)
> 
> The problem is the buildbot service account, being a service account, has no home directory.  Consequently, I can't figure out for the life of me where to put ssh keys for it to use when it uses git to fetch stuff from our repo.  It seems these must always go under ~/.ssh. You can create new ssh agents, use ssh -i, etc. to specify alternate key locations but that is all command line stuff that would have to be supported by the GitPoller and Git source classes.
> 
> Is my only option to create a home directory for the buildbot user?
> 
> --Ken
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