Dokku password prompt even after setting up ssh keys

May 5, 2015 11.6k views
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firezemissile
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firezemissile

Hey,

I'm posting a question here as a last resort, before I throw my computer against the wall (not really), after multiple failed attempts to deploy a Django app through the preconfigured dokku droplets.

I have gone through several droplets, created, destroyed, spent hours going through forums, blogs and stackoverflow, but no matter what I've done I still get stuck at the very last stage -that damn password.

The website I've been using this tutorial LINK but always get stuck at

git push production master

I've added my local (Macbook) public key (id_rsa.pub) to both the root and dokku users, and am able to ssh into them without password prompts. I've configured my git account (git --global?) correctly. I've used

cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh root@your.dokku.ip "sudo sshcommand acl-add dokku [description]"

but again, no matter what I do, I still get the password prompt.

HELP!!!!! What am I doing wrong? Any and all help would be really appreciated.

Thank you in advance...

EDIT: Forgot to ask... What about adding the root ssh key to the dokku user's authorized hosts?
I've also added the root key to my github account...

10 comments
  • chaseadamsio May 7, 2015

    When you ran:

    cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh root@your.dokku.ip "sudo sshcommand acl-add dokku [description]"

    Did you change description to a single word like "personal" or "home"?

  • firezemissile May 7, 2015

    @chaseadamsio yep... tried [macbook] and and macbook and "macbook", with no luck.
    Thanks for replying!

  • chaseadamsio May 7, 2015

    Weird. I ran into this issue this morning on a fresh Dokku instance and that fixed it for me. So your remote look like (when doing git remote -v:

    production dokku@[whateveryoururlIs]:[whateverYourRemoteDokkuRepoIs]

    and when you try to do a push with git push production master you still get a prompt for password?

  • jhartist July 7, 2015

    I'm having the same problem. Not sure how to proceed. Anyone get a fix for this yet?

  • sonchun July 29, 2015

    same problem here!! anyone from DO can make a response?

  • shankardevy August 18, 2015

    having the same issue.

  • sam17e8983053c0 September 11, 2015

    So, it seems that this command is outdated:

    cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh root@your.ip.address "cat >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys"

    But this works for me:

    cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh root@your.ip.address "sudo sshcommand acl-add dokku [description]"
  • yuhnevic December 3, 2015

    Same issue...

  • camerow February 15, 2016

    Any progress on this? Seems like a very common problem with no reliable solution.

    I ran cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh root@my.dokku.ip "sudo sshcommand acl-add dokku firstdokku"

  • camerow February 15, 2016

    I've got an answer below - basically you have to tell git to use ssh!

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9 Answers
chrisvilla April 19, 2016

Make sure you add your SSH key to the authorized_keys for the dokku user as well as root! i.e. in /home/dokku/.ssh/authorized_keys

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firezemissile May 7, 2015

Nobody? :'-(

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archiolidius June 19, 2015

I have the same problem.. Can't resolve during 2 days =(

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derzunov July 5, 2015

I have the same problem.

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derzunov July 5, 2015

Somebody heeeelp ((

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olegakbarov July 18, 2015

spent a few hours tuning SSH & Dokku, but still cant make it work for me
Could anyone look into this issue?

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duuktape August 9, 2015

I had the same problem, and it was because I had a misconfiguration inside ~/.ssh/config

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archiolidius November 13, 2015

Ok, it is the way how i resolved the problem:

  1. Open config file in .ssh folder
  2. Add '.pub' to IdentityFile
  3. save file and try to do "ssh root@[droplet id]"
  4. you will get error
  5. remove '.pub' from config file
  6. do "ssh root@[droplet id]"
  7. in new terminal tab try to push remote branch

I hope it will help somebody =)

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camerow February 15, 2016

For those still getting this problem try updating your ~/.git/config with:

host my.dokku.host
HostName my.dokku.host
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa(.pub)
User dokku
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