How-To: Access GitHub with EZSSH
If your organization uses SSH Certificates to protect your GitHub organization, you must use the EZSSH client to request certificates and get just-in-time access to your code.
Tip
If you are having trouble authenticating to your git repository, make sure to check out our Troubleshooting git problems guide
Prerequisites
Tenant Prerequisites
Your tenant admin/GitHub admins must connect EZSSH to GitHub Enterprise before users are able to login to Git using EZSSH.
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Usage
- Go to your favorite terminal, and enter:
ezssh git
- The first time it will ask you to login with your Azure Active Directory Account
- You should get a “GitHub identity created successfully” message
- Start using your favorite Git Tool for committing your code!
Note
EZSSH Git certificates are short lived (based on your organizations settings might last between 1 and 72 hours). You will have to run this command each time the certificate is expired.
Sending a command through EZSSH
EZSSH offers the option of sending a command to your git solution to make it easier to use. Just add a -c and the command to your EZSSH git command. For Example if you want to pull you can do:
ezssh git -c "pull"
EZSSH will talk care of using your existing certificate or getting a new one and then will call git pull in another window.
