From: Ilari Liusvaara Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:30:58 GMT Subject: Re: git push asking for a password Message-ID: <20100726183058.GA29313@LK-Perkele-V2.elisa-laajakaista.fi> In-Reply-To: <29265051.post@talk.nabble.com> On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 03:31:20AM -0700, brennsuppa wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm working with git for the first time and when I started it I just had to > commit/push/pull on an existing repository. > > Now I should create a new repo, but this fails when I try to git push origin > master:refs/heads/master because it is asking for a password, which should > not happen since ssh-keys are in use, right? The password prompts come from SSH, not git. And there only user and host specified in URL matter. BTW: 'git push origin master:refs/heads/master' can be shortened as 'git push origin master' if 'master' is a branch (it usually is). This isn't the problem however. Few possible problems: - The URL points to wrong host or host alias - The username in URL is wrong - You are trying access from different computer/user that doesn't have valid keys for that system. -Ilari