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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>
Cc: isawk <kwasi.gyasiagyei@4things.co.za>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Git SSH Authentication
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:54:30 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vty2xn6tl.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMK1S_jmY5KvBH8z6YKszroMai4O5ULeCBYGAGFT4CgVUAfmwg@mail.gmail.com> (Sitaram Chamarty's message of "Sat, 11 Feb 2012 10:35:42 +0530")

Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com> writes:

> 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.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-11  7:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-11  4:01 Git SSH Authentication isawk
2012-02-11  5:05 ` Sitaram Chamarty
2012-02-11  7:54   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2012-02-11 10:23     ` Sitaram Chamarty

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