SSH Key - Still asking for password and passphrase

Question

I\'ve been somewhat \'putting up\' with Github always asking for my username and password when I clone a repository. I want to bypass this step because it is an annoyance w

Answer 1

Mobaxterme had a UI interface for it

setting > configuration > SSH > SSH Agent > [check] Use internal SSH agent "moboAgent" > add [your id_rsa and restart mobaxterme to set changes]

Answer 2

Adding to the above answers. Had to do one more step on Windows for git to be able to use ssh-agent.

Had to run the following command in powershell to update the environment variable:

PS> [Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable("GIT_SSH", "$((Get-Command ssh).Source)", [System.EnvironmentVariableTarget]::User)

Restart VSCode, Powershell or whatever terminal you are using to activate the env variable.

Complete instructions can be found [here] (https://snowdrift.tech/cli/ssh/git/tutorials/2019/01/31/using-ssh-agent-git-windows.html).

Answer 3

Use ssh remote url provided by Github not https.

Answer 4

If you used for your GIT the password authentication before, but now are using SSH authentication, you need to switch remote URLs from HTTPS to SSH:

git remote set-url origin git@github.com:USERNAME/REPOSITORY.git

Answer 5

Just run the following command:

ssh-add -K

It will never ask you to enter the password again.

Answer 6

I already had set a passphrase but for some reason it wouldn't recognize it anymore. So I just added the identity file to my keychain again using ssh-add -K and it stopped asking for my password.