jenkins/hudson can't connect to github repo

Question

I am on Ec2 with the base amazon ami linux- I have installed jenkins but when I go to pull the repo from github I am given the following error:

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Answer 1

1) Switch User into your jenkins account

su jenkins

2) Create the key without a passphrase

3) ssh git@github.com

That worked perfectly for me.

You may need to create a password for the jenkins account, if so use sudo passwd jenkins