Re: Git SSH Authentication

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Feb 11, 2012, 07:54 UTC
Message-ID: <7vty2xn6tl.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAMK1S_jmY5KvBH8z6YKszroMai4O5ULeCBYGAGFT4CgVUAfmwg@mail.gmail.com>

Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com> writes:

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> Common causes of pubkey access fail:
>
>   - wrong pubkey being offered: if you are using ssh-agent, make sure
> you have 'ssh-add'ed the key you want to offer.  Confirm with 'ssh-add
> -l'

A failure related to this I saw is to have (too) many keys in ssh-agent, and running ssh without telling it which exact key to use. The client tries each key in turn and the server rejects the connection attempt after seeing too many keys tried. "ssh -v" is useful to diagnose this mode of failure, and an entry in ~/.ssh/config like:

    Host example.com
	User myusernameoverthere
        IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa-for-example.com

would fix it.