Generating SSH keys for 'apache' user
How do I add SSH keys for 'apache' user in Linux?
BACKGROUND
I am trying to add a service hook to github to notify a URL once I push to my repo. I have the following php page set up:
<?php `git pull origin master`;
However I get the following output:
sh: git: Permission denied
This is because the keys I generated for github access were generated by my 'root' user. However when I exectue a command from php it is the 'apache' user that runs it.
The keys therefore do not correspond and permission is denied to pull.
As I cannot switch user from the terminal to generate keys as 'apache', I am not too sure what to do. Can anyone suggest a solution?
Answer
You may have to copy the root generated keys in the .ssh directory of your apache user.
Assuming the homedir of apache is /var/www (check /etc/passwd) and the named key is id_rsa-git :
mkdir -p /var/www/.ssh/
cp /root/.ssh/id_rsa-git /var/www/.ssh/id_rsa
No need to copy the public key.
Note : by default the key used are id_rsa or id_dsa. You may change the name of the copied key to match this.
You may also change ownership of the id_rsa key and .ssh directory:
chown -R apache:apache /var/www/.ssh
chmod 0700 /var/www/.ssh
chmod 0600 /var/www/.ssh/id_rsa