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

If you log in as jenkins you can do

ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa git@github.com

where ~/.ssh/id_rsa is the path/to/your/ssh/key and it will prompt for the password and add to the known_hosts file