How to solve Permission denied (publickey) error when using Git?

Question

I\'m on Mac Snow Leopard and I just installed git.

I just tried

git clone git@thechaw.com:cakebook.git

but that gives

Answer 1

Visual guide (Windows)

1 of 2. Git batch side

1.1. Open git batch (Download her)

1.2. Paste the text below (Change to your GitHub account email)

$ ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "your_email@example.com"

1.3. Press Enter (Accepts the default file location)

1.4. Click Enter Twice (Or set SSH key passphrases - Gitbub passphrases docs)

> Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase): [Type a passphrase]
> Enter same passphrase again: [Type passphrase again]

1.5. The key generate:

Your identification has been saved in /c/Users/user/.ssh/id_rsa...

1.6. Copy the SSH key to your clipboard.

$ clip < ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

2 of 2. Github website user side

Under user setting Create key:

Paste the code from step 1.6

Done :)

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If someone doesn't want to use SSH use HTTPS :

Github docs: https://docs.github.com/en/github/authenticating-to-github/connecting-to-github-with-ssh