EPIC groove ssh-agent github

I am developing my my control/automation program using python through SSH. My processor is a GRV-EPIC-PR1 with the latest firmware.

I use VSCode to remotely program the EPIC processor (it works fine).

The problem come when I try to connect to my github account. Github requires ssh authentication through ssh-agent, which is not available on the EPIC. Is there any reasoning behind why? Or any workaround?

Thanks

Welcome to the forum!

This is a great question, and the solution is not immediately obvious. You can install ssh-agent by getting the openssh-misc package from our repository, since that package includes ssh-agent.
After this I was able to generate and save my key, upload it to my personal GitHub account, and then connect with SSH authentication:

sudo apt-get install openssh-misc

Please let me know if that works for you or if you have any other questions.

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Worked!

Thank you very much. Now developing remotely on the EPIC controller is the way to go!

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@alberto.bueno Thanks for letting us know.
Glad we could help. It was a bit tricky to find that package. Not sure why it was part of the ‘misc’ package, but we got there in the end.