Docs feedback: Use SSH keys to communicate with GitLab (FREE)
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Link the doc and describe what is wrong with it.
The document is here https://gitlab.cern.ch/help/user/ssh.md
One common use case for gitlab is working on a remote server. The doc on ssh is critically lacking in this regard. This command did not work for me no matter what I tried. ssh git@gitlab.cern.ch -T After nearly a 90 minutes of pulling my hair out because I followed the instructions exactly, generating multiple (and multiple types of) ssh keys, I finally found the following command, from this page https://hsf-training.github.io/analysis-essentials/git/07-gitlab.html ssh git@gitlab.cern.ch -T -p 7999
It works perfectly and I have no problems now. In hindsight it's an obvious thing to do, but I am not a cryptographer, a network specialist, or a computer scientist really in any regard. But for someone who is, hopefully the person responsible for writing the help document, it would be so simple to add a note or a line that says "hey, do this if you're working from a remote connection instead of your laptop."