“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.

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Answer 1

After spending hours looking for the solution to this problem, I finally struck gold by making the changes mentioned on an Eclipse Forum.

Steps:

Prerequisites: mysysgit is installed with default configuration.

1.Create the file C:/Users/Username/.ssh/config (Replace "Username" with your Windows 7 user name. (e.g. C:/Users/John/.ssh/config)) and put this in it:

Host github.com
HostName github.com
User git
PreferredAuthentications publickey
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa

2.Try setting up the remote repository now in Eclipse.

Cheers. It should work perfectly.