- You have to enter the passphrase for the private key somewhere, and OS X uses ssh-agent by default. If you want to use ssh-agent but want to avoid the gui dialog box, you can use ssh-add to add the passphrase to the agent and then ssh as usual.
- Same in Mac OS X. In Windows you can use pageant, which is part of putty. In all these the goal is the same: you enter the passphrase only once after you start your PC, the key manager agents will pass it to ssh in subsequent uses until you reboot. – janos Jan 13 '14 at 21:34.
Pinentry-mac is a tool which prompts with a native dialog box for your GPG key passphrase and also allows you to store the password in your Mac’s Keychain. As Homebrew helpfully prompted after installing pinentry-mac, we now need to enable it. While pinentry-mac allows you to save your passphrase, in the interest of security you shouldn't.
You generate an SSH key through Mac OS X by using the Terminal application. Once you upload a valid public SSH key,Gerrit can authenticate you based on this key.
An SSH key consists of a pair of files. One is the private key, which you should never give to anyone. No one will everask you for it and if so, simply ignore them - they are trying to steal it.The other is the public key. When you generate your keys, you will use ssh-keygen to store the keys in a safe locationso you can authenticate with Gerrit.
To generate SSH keys in Mac OS X, follow these steps:
Enter the following command in the Terminal window:
This starts the key generation process. When you execute this command, the ssh-keygen utility prompts you to indicate where to store the key.
Press the
ENTERkey to accept the default location. The ssh-keygen utility prompts you for a passphrase.Type in a passphrase. You can also hit the
ENTERkey to accept the default (no passphrase). However, this is not recommended.
Warning
You will need to enter the passphrase a second time to continue.
After you confirm the passphrase, the system generates the key pair and you will see output like this:
Your private key is saved to the id_rsa file in the .ssh subdirectory of your home directory and is used to verifythe public key you use belongs to your Gerrit account.
Warning
Never share your private key with anyone! Ever! We mean it!
Your public key is saved to a file called id_rsa.pub in the .ssh subdirectory of your home directory. You can copyit to your clipboard using the following command:
Now you can head over to Gerrit, go to settings and paste your public key as described here.
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Gerrit is using the special port 29418 instead of the default SSH port 22 which has to be configured accordingly. This can be done in your local ~/.ssh/config file which would contain the following sections then:
Enter Passphrase For Key
Testing your connection: