Accessing DAVE Embedded Systems restricted git repositories

Info Box Applies to DVDK Applies to MVM

Introduction

Generally speaking, source code maintained by DAVE Embedded Systems is delivered to customers via restricted-access git repositories. To access these repositories a public key is required, as described in the following section.

RSA key generation

Please follow this procedure to generate the RSA ssh key. It is assumed that the host machine is Linux-based (such as [[::Category:DVDK|DVDKs]] and MVMs).

• select your username (e.g. username@myhost.com)
• start the host machine and log in into it
• start a shell session (usually with CTRL-ALT-T)
• enter the .ssh subdirectory into your home directory: cd ~/.ssh/
• launch the following command:

ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "username@myhost.com" -f username@myhost.com

• this command creates the files ~/.ssh/username@myhost.com (private key) and ~/.ssh/username@myhost.com.pub (public key)
• edit your ~/.ssh/config by adding the following lines:

Host git.dave.eu
    User git
    Hostname git.dave.eu
    PreferredAuthentications publickey
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/username@myhost.com

• Send the request for the creation of a new public git account associated to your username, to the following support email address: support@dave.eu. Please indicate in the subject the name of the product and/or the development kit. The technical support team will enable the account and send you a confirmation as soon as possible.