To get ready for this open the public key file (e.g. The contents of the key now have to be pasted into Git (see next section). You will be prompted for the pass phrase (which you have remembered from above !). Having created the key, it now has to be added to the SSH agent.
Your public key has been saved in /Users/pearle/.ssh/id_rsa.pub. Your identification has been saved in /Users/pearle/.ssh/id_rsa. e.g.Įnter file in which to save the key (/Users/pearle/.ssh/id_rsa):Įnter passphrase (empty for no passphrase): The key will be gerenated and you will get some confirmation messages. You have to entere it twice to double check that you have typed it correctly. mixture of letters and numbers, case sensitive. You will be prompted for a pass phrase - enter something and remember what it is! This should be similar strength to a password - e.g. Ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C will be prompted for a file to save the key in - just press enter to use the default just press Enter) and a pass phrase which you must remember! You also have to supply a unique identifier - I have used my email address in the following exampleĮnter the following command (substituting an appropriate value for the email address below) You will be prompted for a file name, which you can ignore (i.e. That page contains all the information that you need in order to generate the keys - for completeness I have screen-shot what I did and recorded below.
This can be done at the command as described below, which I took from. Select Eclipse Preferences > General > Network Connections and fill in the proxy details - e.g. download the code base on to the Mac)Ĭonfigure Eclipse to go through the firewall Use Eclipse to Clone a Git Repository (Ii.e.Configure Eclipse to go through the firewall.I'm using Eclipse Mars version, which comes with the Git plugin installed by default so I don't have to worry about that - my main challenges were in configuring Eclipse to communicate through mire firewall, and then top communicate with Git using SSH.
These are the steps I took to enable me to be able to use GitHub with Eclipse on a Macbook.
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