How to automatically authenticate into GitHub from Git Bash using my Public and Private Keys instead of username and password?

Question

Every time when I write

git pull origin master

or

git push origin master

or anything else in Git Bash I have to insert my username and password to login into GitHub.

I would like instead to automatically authenticate into GitHub using my Public and Private Keys.

I've already created the keys. They are into my local machine under ~/.ssh. I've attached the public key to my account as well. But I'm always asked for the username and password instead.

What do I still have to do to be able to login direct with the keys? Many thanks!

Already done that. Tests work, but when I try to push or pull it still ask for username and password. — Aloysia de Argenteuil
– Aloysia de Argenteuil, Commented Feb 3, 2015 at 12:37
Are you sure ssh -T [email protected] gives you the right response? — Anshul Goyal
– Anshul Goyal, Commented Feb 3, 2015 at 15:46
Just tried again and receive the right response: Hi aloysia! You've successfully authenticated, but GitHub does not provide shell access. — Aloysia de Argenteuil
– Aloysia de Argenteuil, Commented Feb 3, 2015 at 16:04

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 11:52:06Z

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Based on this post https://stackoverflow.com/a/15034499 we learn that git won't ask for user and password only if the repository is configured to use ssh and NOT https.

We can change this using: git remote set-url origin [email protected]:user/repo.git

edited May 23, 2017 at 11:52

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2 Comments

flurbius Over a year ago

Thank you changing the remote url is what I needed, I had tried everything else from 5 other similar stackoverflow questions as well as the github docs. I had even worked out that it was the https urls that were giving me grief so I tried this help.github.com/articles/using-ssh-over-the-https-port but still I was asked for username and password each time despite having my username in git config. To recap what I needed was: - the username in config, - my key fingerprint at github, - the key added to my ssh agent and - the origin url needs to be the git@github one.

Jeff Austin Over a year ago

Thank you. The command you provided did not help me but reading that post did, so thanks. Here is the comment that helped me: stackoverflow.com/a/7773605/9935410

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