[users at bb.net] Passwordless Git Repository

[Chris Spencer]

Where do I put the key? Buildbot runs as the buildbot user, but there's no
/home/buildbot/.ssh directory. Would I need to create one or can I store
the key in my project directory? How do I give Gitpoller the location of
the key?

On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 6:16 PM, Fernando Pando <
fernando.pando at stelligent.com> wrote:

> Hi Chris,
>
> you can generate an ssh keypair for the user buildbot is running as, and
> then add the public key as a "deployment key" to the git repo. with
> multiple slaves, you can either add a unique keypair for each slave and
> have multiple deployment keys in git repo, or push pre-generated keys to
> the slaves as part of your automated buildbot deployment.  it is the
> slave(s) that do the cloning, so they need the keys, not master.
>
> ensure the correct perms on ssh keys, and use ssh url for the repo.
> lastly, make sure your slaves have .ssh/known_hosts populated with host key
> of your git server.  you can use ssh-keyscan for this.
>
> cheers,
> .nando
>
> On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 6:03 PM, Chris Spencer <chrisspen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> How do you configure Buildbot to use SSH keys instead of a password when
>> polling a Git repository?
>>
>> The only way I could get Buildbot to work with my private repo was to
>> give it a URL like:
>>
>>     https://username:password@bitbucket.org/myuser/myrepo.git
>>
>> However, Buildbot displays this URL on almost every page in the web UI,
>> showing the user's password. How do I prevent this?
>>
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