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SSH keys with passphrases

If you need to enter an SSH passphrase when you clone repositories, please follow the below instructions so that the Moderne CLI will work correctly for you.

Option 1: Manually run ssh-add before you clone​

If you authenticate with your SSH key in your terminal, the key will be added to the authentication agent and the mod commands should work as expected afterwards:

ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa

Running ssh-add prior to mod git clone

Option 2: Create an executable script that will echo your SSH passphrase​

This script should look like:

#!/bin/bash

echo "YOUR_PASSWORD_HERE"

When you go to run your mod commands, you would then need to provide the following GIT_SSH_COMMAND environment variable (make sure to replace /PATH/TO/SCRIPT/ with the actual path to your script):

GIT_SSH_COMMAND="SSH_ASKPASS_REQUIRE=force SSH_ASKPASS=/PATH/TO/SCRIPT/ssh_askpass.sh ssh"

Here is what this looks like in practice:

Using an environment variable with a custom script

To make this easier, you could create an alias that wraps this environment variable and the mod command such as in the following bash alias:

alias m='GIT_SSH_COMMAND="SSH_ASKPASS_REQUIRE=force SSH_ASKPASS=/PATH/TO/SCRIPT/ssh_askpass.sh ssh" mod'

You could then run commands like:

m git clone csv ./working-set ./samples/repos.csv