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BenJ
BenJ

Reputation: 456

ssh key issue connecting to github via remote machine

I am having some issues with using git (github) on a remotely accessed machine. I am logging in from home into my work computer via ssh e.g.

me@home$ ssh me@work

after which I try to do a pull or push request to github on my work computer via home e.g.

me@workViaHome$ git pull origin branch

after which I receive the error:

Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.

I have tried loading the ssh key from my work computer using:

me@workViaHome$ eval "$(ssh-agent -s)"
me@workViaHome$ ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa

but still no luck. When I am physically at my work computer I can issue requests to github without any issues; so it seems the issue with with the status of my ssh-keys due to my ssh session.

Thanks for any help!

Upvotes: 4

Views: 936

Answers (1)

Jakuje
Jakuje

Reputation: 25926

SSH is using the default keys if it is not specified otherwise in configuration or if the ssh-agent is not providing any other key.

If you are using a key in nonstandard location, that you have added in your gnome-keyring, you could notice this behavior, because gnome-keying starts only for the graphical sessions, but not for ssh sessions.

Certainly, you can resolve this by properly configuring this key in ~/.ssh/config on the work computer. Just add

Host github.com
  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/path_to_key
  IdentitiesOnly yes

Upvotes: 2

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