Had a similar problem with the GitHub because I was using HTTPS protocol. To check what protocol you’re using just run git config -l and look at the line starting with remote.origin.url. To switch your protocol git config remote.origin.url [email protected]:your_username/your_project.git
It’s a harder problem if you need to use SSH at build time. For example if you’re using git clone, or in my case pip and npm to download from a private repository. The solution I found is to add your keys using the –build-arg flag. Then you can use the new experimental –squash command … Read more
From my .ssh/config: Host myshortname realname.example.com HostName realname.example.com IdentityFile ~/.ssh/realname_rsa # private key for realname User remoteusername Host myother realname2.example.org HostName realname2.example.org IdentityFile ~/.ssh/realname2_rsa # different private key for realname2 User remoteusername Then you can use the following to connect: ssh myshortname ssh myother And so on.
puttygen supports exporting your private key to an OpenSSH compatible format. You can then use OpenSSH tools to recreate the public key. Open PuttyGen Click Load Load your private key Go to Conversions->Export OpenSSH and export your private key Copy your private key to ~/.ssh/id_dsa (or id_rsa). Create the RFC 4716 version of the public … Read more
As I answered previously in Cloning git repo causes error – Host key verification failed. fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly, add GitHub to the list of known hosts: ssh-keyscan -t rsa github.com >> ~/.ssh/known_hosts
Git: How to solve Permission denied (publickey) error when using Git?
Andy Lester’s response is accurate but I found an important extra step I needed to make to get this to work. In trying to get two profiles set up, one for personal and one for work, my ~/.ssh/config was roughly as follows: Host me.github.com HostName github.com PreferredAuthentications publickey IdentityFile ~/.ssh/me_rsa Host work.github.com HostName github.com PreferredAuthentications … Read more