Comments on: Permission denied (publickey) errors with git and GitHub on OS X

By: Iain Barnett

Iain Barnett — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 10:08:55 +0000

I’m not a git wizard, just wanted to say thanks for posting this up, it helped fix my ssh too.

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 20:03:40 +0000

Thank you so much! Struggled for days trying to push from my home laptop with my work machine working perfectly!

By: Marc Limotte

Marc Limotte — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 17:51:52 +0000

I had the same problem. Commits working one day, and then not the next.

For me, the solution was to re-run ssh-add. From the docs:
“Note: If you don’t use the default key names, or store your keys in a different path, you will need to run ssh-add path/to/my_key so that ssh knows where to find your key.”

I had done this previously, but somehow it must have gotten reset.

By: Joe

Joe — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:24:01 +0000

I was having a similar problem on ubuntu. This worked a treat. Thanks.

By: Mandar Vaze

Mandar Vaze — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 08:06:12 +0000

I also had faced same problem on Windows using msysGit. Creating a config file solved the problem. Thanks a lot !!

By: Aaron Feng

Aaron Feng — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 01:13:21 +0000

Great tip, did the trick!