GitHub: Permission denied (publickey). fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

Question

I have followed these instructions below to upload a project.

Global setup:

 Download and install Git
  git config --global user.name \"Your Name\"
         


        

Answer 1

My issue was that I was trying to give my ssh key a SPECIFIC NAME every time I entered ssh-keygen on my mac terminal.

I solved the issue by just leaving the name that "ssh-keygen" generates = id_rsa. You'll end up with 2 keys in your .ssh folder on a mac, id_rsa, which is your private key, and the id_rsa.pub, which is your public key. Then I copied and saved the code from id_rsa.pub into my GitHub account settings, and that was it. Problem solved.