Setting up jenkins on centos: problems with ssh keys and git

Question

Went through a lot of questions, but nothing seems to be solving my issue. Or to be more precise I am not sure if I am doing the whole thing correctly. So here it is:

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Answer 1

I'm assuming that you have root access if you were able to install the Jenkins RPM. Were you su-ing to the jenkins user while logged in as root ? If not, you should do so or use

sudo su - jenkins

if your logged in user has sudo access.

Then run

ssh-keygen -t rsa

to generate an RSA keypair for the jenkins user, and you can upload the public key to your git server. The key will be generated as /var/lib/jenkins/.ssh.id_ra.pub if you take the defaults.