SSH Key - Still asking for password and passphrase

Question

I\'ve been somewhat \'putting up\' with Github always asking for my username and password when I clone a repository. I want to bypass this step because it is an annoyance w

Answer 1

As explained in Cloning a Git repo from VSTS over SSH asks a password! Unexpected

The problem may be because of public key authentication failing, so it then asks for mycompany account's password.

This would not happen if the public key authentication succeeded.

So you might check id_rsa.pub and even create a new one.