Question

Update

Ran into this again today – when my work laptop was taken home – appears that a Window domain might be the underlying issue. Found the solution here:

SSH is looking in the wrong place for the public/private key pair on Windows

Original Question

I’ve had Git working fine for the last few months, this morning I try and make a push and I’m asked to confirm RSA cert for the IP – I double check github IP and it’s ok so I add the certificate. But I’m getting:

Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

When I try to push or pull.

I read Git – Permission denied (publickey) and tried adding my key again to Github but I’m told:

Key is already in use

Running

ssh -vT [e-mail]

Retuns:

OpenSSH_4.6p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8e 23 Feb 2007
debug1: Connecting to github.com [207.97.227.239] port 22.
debug1: Connection established.
debug1: identity file /p/.ssh/identity type -1
debug1: identity file /p/.ssh/id_rsa type -1
debug1: identity file /p/.ssh/id_dsa type -1
debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version OpenSSH_5.1p1 Debia
n-5github2
debug1: match: OpenSSH_5.1p1 Debian-5github2 pat OpenSSH*
debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0
debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_4.6
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT received
debug1: kex: server->client aes128-cbc hmac-md5 none
debug1: kex: client->server aes128-cbc hmac-md5 none
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REQUEST(1024<1024<8192) sent
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_GROUP
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_INIT sent
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REPLY
debug1: Host 'github.com' is known and matches the RSA host key.
debug1: Found key in /p/.ssh/known_hosts:1
debug1: ssh_rsa_verify: signature correct
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received
debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_REQUEST sent
debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey
debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
debug1: Trying private key: /p/.ssh/identity
debug1: Trying private key: /p/.ssh/id_rsa
debug1: Trying private key: /p/.ssh/id_dsa
debug1: No more authentication methods to try.
Permission denied (publickey).

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Answer 1

Seems like you have a bunch of private keys:

debug1: Trying private key: /p/.ssh/identity
debug1: Trying private key: /p/.ssh/id_rsa
debug1: Trying private key: /p/.ssh/id_dsa

Do you recognize any of these?

You might try to specify the key to be used with -i:

ssh -i /path/to/key -vT [e-mail]

Maybe this will help.