I'm working on a small ruby script that will checkout and sync a branch on two different servers. I'm trying to figure out how to pass a password to git when pulling. Right now I have
Net::SSH.start(host, user, password: password) do |ssh|
# other code....
result = ssh.exec!("git pull")
# results in Enter passphrase for key '/root/.ssh/id_rsa'
end
After running the git command it get a prompt for the key passphrase.
Is it possible to pass that in with a git command? Or is there another way to do that within ruby?
The net-ssh documetation does mention the method Net::SSH.start() accepts a passphrase argument:
passphrase
the passphrase to use when loading a private key (default is nil, for no passphrase)
So if you can get the passphrase (from a file or environment variable) in your program, you can add that argument to the Net::SSH.start() method.
Once you are connected, however, it is best to:
git pull commands, since you can register once and for all the password (not passphrase) associated with that HTTPS URL in a credential storage.Using a passphrase means adding to your SSH session:
That seems quite cumbersome.