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Subject: help with steps to change deploy.rb to SSH public/private key-pair authentication

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Kristen Hazard

03 Oct, 2009 12:29 AM via web

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I'm following the steps to deploy with capistrano and need help with the following note:

Note: Our deploy.rb file contains the username and password of the deploy user for your environment(s). For security, it’s highly recommended that you change to a SSH public/private key-pair authentication method of your deployment machine and remove the password directive from the deploy.rb file. It’s considered a bad practice to commit the username and password to your environment(s) into your repository.

Could you layout the steps I follow when changing deploy.rb.

For example what code to I add to utilize ssh.

What code do I remove. I'm guessing I remove from this section

task :production do
role :web, '174.129.0.212' role :app, '174.129.0.212' role :db, '174.129.0.212', :primary => true set :environment_database, Proc.new { production_database } set :dbuser, 'deploy' set :dbpass, 'passwordhere' set :user, 'deploy' set :password, 'passwordhere' set :runner, 'deploy' set :rails_env, 'production' end

Thank you

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