How to solve Permission denied (publickey) error w

Question

I'm on Mac Snow Leopard and I just installed git.

I just tried

git clone [e-mail]:cakebook.git

but that gives me this error:

Initialized empty Git repository in `/Users/username/Documents/cakebook/.git/`
Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

What am I missing?
I've also tried doing ssh-keygen with no passphase but still same error.

Answer 1

On Windows, make sure all your apps agree on HOME. Msys will surprisingly NOT do it for you. I had to set an environment variable because ssh and git couldn't seem to agree on where my .ssh directory was.

Answer 2

I was getting this error because I generated the ssh keys with the wrong email. I was able to connect using ssh, but not using git. The solution was to regenerate the keys using the main email address of my github account.

Answer 3

This works for me:

ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa

Answer 4

Its pretty straight forward. Type the below command

ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "[e-mail]"

Generate the SSH key. Open the file and copy the contents. Go to GitHub setting page , and click on SSH key . Click on Add new SSH key, and paste the contents here. That's it :) You shouldn't see the issue again.

Answer 5

I was getting a similar Permission denied (publickey) error when trying to run a makefile.

As an alternative to the SSH steps above, you can Install the native GitHub for Mac application.

Click Download GitHub for Mac from - https://help.github.com/articles/set-up-git#platform-mac

Once you complete setup with your git hub account (I also installed the git hub command line tools but unsure if this step is required or not) then I received an email -

[GitHub] A new public key was added to your account

and my error was fixed.

Answer 6

It worked for me

ssh -i [your id_rsa path] -T [e-mail]