Sign Up to our social questions and Answers Engine to ask questions, answer people’s questions, and connect with other people.
Login to our social questions & Answers Engine to ask questions answer people’s questions & connect with other people.
Lost your password? Please enter your email address. You will receive a link and will create a new password via email.
Please briefly explain why you feel this question should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this answer should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this user should be reported.
I know the answer is out there, but I’m pretty Unix-dumb and probably wouldn’t recognize the solution if it hit me in the face.
I’m on a Mac, connecting to a SVN server via SSH tunneling. I have to ssh-add privateKey.txt every time I want to connect to the SVN server (Both Cornerstone and Xcode are connecting to SVN).
Is there a way to “save” the key somewhere so I don’t have to do this every time? Add it to my Keychain? Some config file? Start up script?
First, move your private key file into
~/.ssh. This is not strictly necessary but it’s the standard place for such things.Then run
ssh-add -K ~/.ssh/privateKey.txt. It’ll prompt for your passphrase if necessary, then add it to your Keychain.After that, you shouldn’t have to do anything else. A slightly longer explanation is available here.