Permission denied (publickey) errors on Windows when using Moovweb

Question

I\'m able to authenticate, generate, push etc just fine with my SSH keys and Moovweb credentials on my Mac and Linux machines.

However, on my Windows machine, using Git

Answer 1

Quick & dirty solution: use only the default id_rsa.pub key

Some notes:

1. make sure you enter the right passphrase to id_rsa.pub
2. do not use your other key, new_rsa.pub

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It turns out that Windows Git Bash doesn't quite come with all the cool utilities Mac/Linux users are used to. Specifically, you don't have ssh-agent running to help handle multiple keys. Without ssh-agent, the git command only seems to use the default id_rsa.pub key.

You can verify this is an SSH/Windows issue following Github's awesome SSH troubleshooting guide. You'll get a Permission denied (publickey) no matter which SSH/Git server you try to connect to.