How to Setup Git on Raspberry Pi

/ By / Coding, Jisoo, Git, RPi

This is for myself to remind how I troubleshoot and someone who has trouble setup the git on raspberry pi.

For those of you who want just answer, jump to the solution.

1. Issue

I was trying to clone my react portfolio website project on raspberry pi to host myself. I had permission issues while cloning.

2. Tried

I realized I forgot to add ssh key for my rpi on github, so I was searching the ssh key on my rpi under ~/.ssh folder. However, there was no specific ssh keys under that folder, but some other files that I made config while setting up the rpi.

So, I was searching again, and I found ssh keys under etc/ssh folder.

If you try type below command, you will see github will looking for ssh keys in ~/.ssh this folder.

ssh -vT [email protected]

On the screenshot above, you can see -1 at the end is status as I searched. Meaning, not found.

So, I add one of the ssh keys to github and copied and paste the ssh keys from etc/ssh folder to ~/.ssh folder. Make sure using command line with sudo to copy/paste the private key. If not, will give you permission denied.

After done everything, I tried clone the repo again. Still get same permission denied issue. but this time having something like below. (forgot to get screenshot.)

Load key "/root/.ssh/id_rsa": bad permissions
[email protected]: Permission denied (publickey).

It was loading key now, but still get permission denied. So, I tried with multiple different ssh keys like rsa, ecdsa, and ed25519. However, all failed.

3. Solution

Honestly, I don’t remember I generated those ssh keys or not, and why they are in the other folder instead as usual under ~/.ssh folder. So, I just decided to generate new ssh keys.

ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "[email protected]"

then, you will be asked to type in things like….

  Generating public/private rsa key pair.
  Enter file in which to save the key (/home/pi/.ssh/id_rsa): 
  Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase): 
  Enter same passphrase again:

then, enter id_rsa for the first request, and password or just hit enter if you don’t need password.

now, add the public key to github.

Yay!! now I could successfully clone!!!

4. Reference

Hope you solved your issue!

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