Permission denied (publickey) when setting up Jenkins

Question

I am setting up Jenkins on a Win 2008 server machine and am having some trouble configuring Jenkins to connect to GitHub. I get the following error:

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Answer 1

It appears the git plugin now provides a way to point Jenkins to the home directory.

1. Click the credential add button.

2. Point Jenkins to your private key.

3. Select the newly-added credentials from the list.