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Basically, I want to sync my repo on iPad with git, but I can't find the public key, so I can't clone the repo. I found three different guides, but none of them has worked out for me so far. I first tried following the instructions here and here.

I generated an SSH key with ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C “[email protected]” After that, I got a randomart and a message, telling me where the public key could be found. The next step, according to the guides is to double check the public key is where it's at. The first guide said to run ls ~/.ssh and I'd see where the keys are. But I am presented with an error message. When I go ahead and run cat ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub, I'm told that no file or directory can be found.

The same thing happens when I copy the entire path rather than enter the short one. The second guide said to add the key to SSH agent and to run $ eval "$(ssh-agent -s)" > Agent pid 59566 But a-Shell tells me that the command doesn't exist. This second guide also said

Depending on your environment, you may need to use a different command. For example, you may need to use root access by running sudo -s -H before starting the ssh-agent, or you may need to use exec ssh-agent bash or exec ssh-agent zsh to run the ssh-agent.

But neither sudo nor exec exist as commands.

I found a third guide, but it also didn't tell me how to get the public key, only that I should link it with git. I tried ssh-agent, and I'm told that I can now run ssh-add, so I tried that, but it didn't work.

In the list of commands I got from help -l, I saw ssh-copy-id So I tried that and ran ssh-copy-id ~/.ssh/id_ed25519, but that didn't work, tried it again ssh-copy-id ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub. That didn't work either. I got Error: ssh: Could not resolve hostname and nodename nor servnamer provided, or not known.

I'm not sure what I'm missing here. I've done the same on Android and I got the repo to sync, but iOS has me stumped.

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  • I find this question interesting because I had no idea that such a thing was allowed in the Mobile App Store. In the past, it certainly wouldn't have been possible without jailbreaking. That said, according to the repo page on GitHub, the a-shell doesn't have write access to ~. "Most configuration files (Python packages, TeX files, Clang SDK...) are in ~/Library," it says. Have you looked there? Commented Jul 3 at 1:02
  • @LincDavis I couldn't access ~/Library either, unfortunately . ~/Documents seems to be the only thing I can access without much trouble. The Library folder was actually hidden until ls -A ~ Commented Jul 3 at 7:34
  • What exactly did you do, and what happened? Commented Jul 3 at 13:02

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