Push to GitHub without a password using ssh-key

Question

I generated an SSH key pair without a password and added the public key to GitHub   Connection with  user dev  var www project  ssh -T git github com Hi User  You ve successfully authenticated  but GitHub does not provide shell access    was successful and when I rename the key  it fails   But when I want to push my changes  it stills ask me for my username and password combination   Is there a way to push without a password

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As usual  create an SSH key and paste the public key to GitHub  Add the private key to ssh-agent   I assume this is what you have done    To check everything is correct  use ssh -T git github com  Next  don t forget to modify the remote point as follows   git remote set-url origin git github com username your-repository git

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If it is asking you for a username and password  your origin remote is pointing at the HTTPS URL rather than the SSH URL   Change it to ssh   For example  a GitHub project like Git will have an HTTPS URL   https   github com  lt Username gt   lt Project gt  git   And the SSH one   git github com  lt Username gt   lt Project gt  git   You can do   git remote set-url origin git github com  lt Username gt   lt Project gt  git   to change the URL

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Using the command line   Enter ls -al    ssh to see if existing SSH keys are present   In the terminal is shows  No directory exist  Then generate a new SSH key  Step 1   ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C  your email example com    step 2   Enter a file in which to save the key   Users you  ssh id rsa    lt here is file name and enter the key gt    step 3   Enter passphrase  empty for no passphrase    Type a password   Enter same passphrase again   Type password again

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You have to use the SSH version  not HTTPS  When you clone from a repository  copy the link with the SSH version  because SSH is easy to use and solves all problems with access  You can set the access for every SSH you input into your account  like push  pull  clone  etc      Here is a link  which says why we need SSH and how to use it  step by step  Git Generate SSH Keys

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Additionally for gists  it seems you must leave out the username  git remote set-url origin git gist github com  lt Project code gt

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In case you are indeed using the SSH URL  but still are asked for username and password when git pushing   git remote set-url origin git github com  lt Username gt   lt Project gt  git   You should try troubleshooting with   ssh -vT git github com   Below is a piece of sample output       debug1  Trying private key   c Users Yuci  ssh id rsa debug1  Trying private key   c Users Yuci  ssh id dsa debug1  Trying private key   c Users Yuci  ssh id ecdsa debug1  Trying private key   c Users Yuci  ssh id ed25519 debug1  No more authentication methods to try  Permission denied  publickey     I actually have already added the public key to GitHub before  and I also have the private key locally  However  my private key is of a different name called  c Users Yuci  ssh github rsa   According to the sample output  Git is trying  c Users Yuci  ssh id rsa  which I don t have  Therefore  I could simply copy github rsa to id rsa in the same directory   cp  c Users Yuci  ssh github rsa  c Users Yuci  ssh id rsa   Now when I run ssh -vT git github com again  I have       debug1  Trying private key   c Users Yuci  ssh id rsa debug1  Authentication succeeded  publickey       Hi  lt my username gt   You ve successfully authenticated  but GitHub does not provide shell access        And now I can push to GitHub without being asked for username and password  -

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