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Alex Ironside
Alex Ironside

Reputation: 5039

Github prompting for credentials after ssh

I established ssh with github as instructed here:

https://help.github.com/articles/connecting-to-github-with-ssh/

I tested the ssh connection, but still no luck

iron@debian:~/Documents/websites/basic_setup_edited_20-08-2017@21-15$ ssh -T [email protected]
Hi alex3wielki! You've successfully authenticated, but GitHub does not provide shell access.

But after doing git push I get this:

iron@debian:~/Documents/websites/basic_setup_edited_20-08-2017@21-15$ git push
Username for 'https://github.com': alex3wielki
Password for 'https://[email protected]':

I tried switching the

url = https://github.com/alex3wielki/project-setup.git

to

url = ssh://github.com/alex3wielki/project-setup.git

as instructed in another post, but all it did was:

iron@debian:~/Documents/websites/basic_setup_edited_20-08-2017@21-15$ git push
Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

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

I know the repo exists, here's the link

https://github.com/alex3wielki/project-setup

When I change the repo link to 

url = ssh://[email protected]/alex3wielki/project-setup.git

it doesn't prompt for password, but even after doing a change and going git add . I get

Everything up-to-date

I'm using Debian 9. What am I missing?

Here is some more info

SSH "works"

SSH "works"

But not really

But not really

I am in the root/top of the folder structure. git add . and git push are done from here

iron@debian:~/Documents/websites/basic_setup_edited_20-08-2017@21-15$ ls -a
.  ..  assets  bower.json  .bowerrc  content  _dev  .git  Gruntfile.js  index.html  node_modules  package.json  .sass-cache  scripts

Upvotes: 1

Views: 130

Answers (1)

Ajinkya Dhote
Ajinkya Dhote

Reputation: 1478

You have to add your ssh key to github, so that github knows that you are the only one how is pushing to the repo. You can learn how to create ssh key and add it to github here

Generating the ssh key

  1. In terminal

    ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "[email protected]"

Enter the desired passphrase and other information asked during the process.

Adding your SSH key to the ssh-agent

First Start the ssh agent

eval "$(ssh-agent -s)"

Add your private key to ssh agent

ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa

Adding your key to github

For addign your key to github you can follow the processs mentioned here

Upvotes: 1

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