Jenkins: Failed to connect to repository

Question

I\'m trying to connect jenkins on a github repo.

When I specify the Repo URL jenkins return the following error message:

Failed to connect to

Answer 1

On Ubuntu, placed your id_rsa and id_rsa.pub files in /var/lib/jenkins/.ssh

Make Jenkins own them sudo chown -R jenkins /var/lib/jenkins/.ssh/

Make sure that Jenkins key is added as deploy key with RW access in GitHub (or similar) - use the id_rsa.pub key for this.

Now everything should jive with the SCM Sync Plugin.