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How to authorize Local System Account for OpenSSH

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We have Jenkins installed and want it to pull from bitbucket and github – authorization should happen through Open SSH (Public Keys).

Jenkins runs as Local System.

The problem

How to find and then place id_rsa into ~/.ssh? How to get it to add things to ~/.ss/known_hosts?

The solution

As always: fake it until you make it!

  1. Run this command in an elevated command prompt on the server, in order to start a command prompt as Local System user:

    sc create testsvc binpath= "cmd /K start" type= own type= interact && sc start testsvc & sc delete testsvc

    The Interactive Services Detection will now bring up a dialog (probably in the background) where it asks you to “View the message” in order to display the service session where the command window will run.

  2. Run echo %userprofile% to see where your storage is… In my case it is "C:\Windows\system32\config\systemprofile”.

    Odd, but true: Sadly, when i try to put the id_rsa file into that directory from my normal user session, it somehow doesn’t make it into the local system accounts profile.
  3. From here you can open the git bash by running C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin\sh –login –i
  4. Then run cd ~ to switch to your home directory.
  5. Then copy your id_rsa file here with a simple
    cp <id_rsa-location> .
  6. Now run ssh git@bitbucket.org in order to try to authenticate and accept the host as known host.

BTW: also make sure you run git.cmd, not git.exe!!

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