Question

I have been scanning the web/SO and read several permission denieds plea’s for help I just cant find one that solves my issue in a way i understand.

I’m following these instructions (Getting Started with Python on Heroku/Cedar). Everything went alright until:

drewverlee@ubuntu:~/helloflask$ source venv/bin/activate
(venv)drewverlee@ubuntu:~/helloflask$ git push heroku master

The authenticity of host 'heroku.com (50.19.85.132)' can't be established.
RSA key fingerprint is ##:##:##:##:##:##:##:##:##:##:##:## (I replaced with #)
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
Failed to add the host to the list of known hosts (/home/drewverlee/.ssh/known_hosts).
Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

(Not sure of security so i replaced the key with (#))

I think it might be because of

drwx------  2 root       root        1024 2012-03-08 21:26 .ssh

because

drewverlee@ubuntu:~$ ssh-keygen
Generating public/private rsa key pair.
Enter file in which to save the key (/home/drewverlee/.ssh/id_rsa): 
Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase): 
Enter same passphrase again: 
open /home/drewverlee/.ssh/id_rsa failed: Permission denied.
Saving the key failed: /home/drewverlee/.ssh/id_rsa.

As someone with little experience in these matters i’m not sure how to undo what i have done safely as i know i’m meddling with powerful tools. Any advice on whats going on here?
Let me know if i need to include more information to solve the problem.

Answer 1

You should own the permissions to the .ssh dir in your own directory, but in your case, it’s owned by root. Try

cd ~
sudo chown drewverlee .ssh

and then retry creating keys and connecting.