I have a new setup of Jenkins running as a WAR deployment on a Tomcat6 server in Ubuntu. I also have, on that same server, and install of Gitosis for all of my repositories.
I have been working on getting Jenkins to build the repositories, but have been unsuccessful in getting the SSH public key setup for Tomcat in my repo server. I started out by logging in as Tomcat with the command sudo su - tomcat6 and ran ssh-keygen -t rsa. After that I copied the id_rsa.pub key to the keydir directory in the gitosis repo.
So here is the basic rundown of my command:
sudo su - tomcat6
ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "tomcat6@trogdorsrv"
exit # Get back to my user
sudo cp /usr/share/tomcat6/.ssh/id_rsa.pub ~/gitosis-admin/keydir/tomcat6@trogdorsrv
My next step was to open the gitosis.conf file in the gitosos-admin repo and add my new user as the administrator of the repos:
vim ~/gitosis-admin/gitosis.conf
gitosis.conf:
[group buildserver]
writable = repo-name
members = tomcat6@trogdorsrv
I also have other members and the repo-name is the name of my actualy repo. I then pushed the gitosis-admin repo up to the remote and commited some data to it from another repo user.
I am able to read and write to my repo from the other users, but when I try to use Tomcat I get an error that it can't login. I tried logging in as Tomcat again and doing a git clone manually so that the git server's fingerprint was added to the known_hosts and when I did the clone it asked me for my git users password.
Soooo am I doing something wrong to get Jenkins SSH keys into Gitosis?
The problem was that I named my public key tomcat6@server in the keydir, whereas gitosis requires the file to be names tomcat6@server.pub to use it even though I did copy the public key.