“Auth Failed” error with EGit and GitHub

Question

I've installed EGit plugin at Eclipse Helios and I'm trying to use it with my GitHub account, but when I try to configure it I get an "Auth Failed" error.

I'd been googling it but no luck... it seems to be a problem with my passphrase but AFAIK EGit is looking at the right place (/home/user/.ssh/id_rsa) and I've no problem in connect by ssh or git console client.

Some blogs says that is a problem with the URI and the Egit's parser but I still haven't found a solution.

Answer 1

I solved same problem with adding my key to ssh;

ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa 

then entered the passphrase and need restart.

Answer 2

I discovered that if I set up the two-step authentication in github, Eclipse isn't able to connect to Github - which makes sense because the two-step authentication in github requires you to input a number from an SMS (and Eclipse wouldn't have this information).

If this is your scenario, you might consider de-activating your two-step authentication in github, and see if that helps.

Answer 3

I found a post on the Eclipse forums that solved this problem for me.

Answer 4

At the link below I posted what worked for me...

http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php?t=msg&goto=648905&S=9bcfa96ab726d744d41a19c7fb02d723#msg_648905

Answer 5

My fourpenneth: my SSH keys were set up in Cygwin, at C:\cygwin\home\<user>.ssh, so I pointed SSH to this folder instead of the default (Win7) C:\Users\<user>\ssh, as per these instructions: http://wiki.eclipse.org/EGit/User_Guide/Remote#Eclipse_SSH_Configuration

and used the ssh protocol, and it works fine. Trying to use the git protocol still gives "User not supported on the git protocol", though.

Answer 6

Have you tried to use the ssh protocol instead on git+ssh ? I've got the same problem, and that solved it, even though official documentation tells to use git+ssh