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

If you are using ssh url for git, when prompted for password for ssh put the username as "git" and the password as your system's login password

Answer 2

Make sure you are using ssh for your repository also

mahtab@mahtab-Lenovo-G50-70:~/my-projects/jenkins-cje-2017$ git remote -v origin git@github.com:eMahtab/jenkins-cje-2017.git (fetch) origin git@github.com:eMahtab/jenkins-cje-2017.git (push)

Don't use https, if your remote is using https then it will keep asking for password, even If you have added the public key to Github and added private key to ssh-agent. Below will always ask for password

mahtab@mahtab-Lenovo-G50-70:~/my-projects/jenkins-cje-2017$ git remote -v origin https://github.com/eMahtab/jenkins-cje-2017.git (fetch) origin https://github.com/eMahtab/jenkins-cje-2017.git (push)

Answer 3

Try ssh-agent as it is explained there : https://help.github.com/articles/working-with-ssh-key-passphrases

Answer 4

Worked in LinuxMint/Ubuntu

Do the following steps

Step 1:

Goto file => /.ssh/config

Save the below lines into the file

Host bitbucket.org
    HostName bitbucket.org
    User git
    IdentityFile /home/apple/myssh-privatekey
    AddKeysToAgent yes

Don't forget to add this line AddKeysToAgent yes

Step 2:

Open the terminal and add the keyset to the ssh-add

$ ssh-add -k /home/apple/myssh-privatekey

provide the passphrase.

Answer 5

If you're using windows, this worked for me:

eval `ssh-agent -s`
ssh-add ~/.ssh/*_rsa

It'll ask for passphrase in the second command, and that's it.

Answer 6

I recently upgraded to macOS Mojave, and installed some tools via homebrew, which seemed to swap Apple's version of ssh-add for the different one. My default version of ssh-add did not have the -K option. This led to the following error:

# ssh-add: illegal option -- K

You can see which version of ssh-add you have by running which ssh-add.

(Mine was stored in /usr/local/bin/ssh-add)

To fix this, I had to point the key to Apple's version:

/usr/bin/ssh-add -K ~/.ssh/id_rsa

Git/GitHub worked perfectly afterward. For more information, see: Error: ssh-add: illegal option -- K