Question

I can’t login to github with generated ssh-keys. I’ve followed this manual: http://help.github.com/linux-key-setup but at step:

ssh [e-mail]

I get:

Agent admitted failure to sign using
the key. Permission denied
(publickey).

What’s wroing? And, of course, I’m adding my own user email.

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Tried dsa-key, the same thing.

Answer 1

From the troubleshooting guide:

Permission denied (publickey)

This is usually caused when ssh cannot
find your keys. Make sure your key is
in the default location, ~/.ssh. If
you run ssh-keygen again and just
press enter at all 3 prompts it will
be placed here automatically. Then you
can add the contents of id_rsa.pub to
my github keys. If id_rsa.pub doesn’t
work try id_dsa.pub. You might need to
generate a new dsa key with ssh-keygen
-t dsa if you just have an rsa key.

If you are still having problems and
none of the above worked, you may have
a blacklisted key from a debian
open-ssh bug. you should update
open-ssh and re-generate your keys.

So, just to check – are your keys available under ~/.ssh/ as id_rsa and id_rsa.pub or otherwise, are you specifying their use?