Auth Failed error with EGit and GitHub

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I ve installed EGit plugin at Eclipse Helios and I m trying to use it with my GitHub account  but when I try to configure it I get an  Auth Failed  error   I d been googling it but no luck    it seems to be a problem with my passphrase but AFAIK EGit is looking at the right place   home user  ssh id rsa  and I ve no problem in connect by ssh or git console client   Some blogs says that is a problem with the URI and the Egit s parser but I still haven t found a solution

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I found a post on the Eclipse forums that solved this problem for me

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I wanted to make public once me too a google code fix and got the same error  Started with This video  but at Save and publish got an error   I have seen there are several question regarding to this  Some are Windows users  those are the most lucky  because usually no problems with permissions and some are Linux users   I have a mac for mobile development use and very often meet this problems  The source for this problems is the  platform independent  solutions  which doesn t care enough for mac and they don t have access to keychain  where are stored the certificates   pem files and so on   All I wanted is to not make any environment settings  nor command line  just simple GUI based clicks  like a regular user   Half part was done with Eclipse Git plugin  second part  push to Github  was done with Mac Github  Nice and easy     All can be done with with that native appp if I would start to learn it  I just need the push functionality from him   Hoping it will help a mac user once

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IF YOU HAVE PEM FILE  In Eclipse go to Window   Preferences   Network Connections   SSH2  and then add path to your PEM file to  Private keys  and that should solve the problem

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I was having the same issue which it seems was down to config issue  The github mac osx app had created a ssh private key called github rsa  In your Eclipse go to Window  gt  Preferences  gt  Network Connections  gt  SSH2  In the general tab you should see SSH2 home  Users  lt you username gt   ssh you ll probably see id dsa id rsa defined as private keys    Click  Add private key  and select github rsa located  Users  lt you username gt   ssh

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I could use console to push pull the repositories  but no in eclipse  In my case  eclipse seems can t read my SSH private key  my key started with   -----BEGIN OPENSSH PRIVATE KEY-----   And I noticed my colleague s key started with   -----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY----- Proc-Type  4 ENCRYPTED   I think currently eclipse can t take this new kind of key  OPENSSH PRIVATE KEY    I solved it by  Regenerate your ssh key by using command   ssh-keygen -m PEM -t rsa -b 2048   This will use the old way to generate the key  so it will starts with the headers   -----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY----- Proc-Type  4 ENCRYPTED   see more information on   https   github com duplicati duplicati issues 3360  Then you can load the key again in eclilpse by using Preferences -  Network connections -  SSH2  click  Add Private Key   still select your private key  even you already see the name in the list of private keys  because eclipse has to reload it

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My answer may be outdated but hopefully it can be useful for someone    In your Eclipse go to Window   Preferences   General   Network Connections   SSH2  or just type  SSH2  in preferences window filter box   In  Key Management  tab press  Generate RSA Key     button  Optionally you can add comment  usually e-mail address  and passphrase to your key  Passphrase will be used during authentication on GitHub  Copy your generated public key  in a box just below  Generate RSA Key     button  and add it to your GitHub account  Press  Save Private Key     button to save your private RSA key into file  By default keys are stored in SSH2 home directory  see  General  tab     That s it  Now you should be able to push your code to GitHub repo

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I had exactly same problem but I found the cure from a Eclipse bug report   An environment variable named GIT SSH must be set with a path to a ssh executable  1    For example on Ubuntu Linux  10 10 64bit     gt  export GIT SSH  usr bin ssh  gt  eclipse   After that pushes to GitHub repository work like they should  I tested this with Eclipse Galileo and Indigo   The problem is really annoying and the solution is far from nice  For now  making the solution permanent for  at least Ubuntu users  one must make the env variable permanent  It can be done by adding the export command to    profile or    bashrc  2   For example    gt  cd    gt  echo  export GIT SSH  usr bin ssh   gt  gt   profile   And then restart Eclipse to take effect   Sources     1  The solution is from this bug report  2  Ubuntu Community Documentation for persistent environment variables

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For  nix users who are using SSH   Make sure the username for your account on your local machine does not differ from the username for the account on the server  Apparently  eGit does not seem to be able to handle this  For example  if your username on your local machine is  john   and the account you are using on the server is named  git   egit simply fails to connect  for me anyways   The only work around I have found is to make sure you have identical usernames in both the local machine and the server

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For you who  like me   already did setup you ssh-keys but still get the errors   Make sure you did setup a push remote  It worked for me when I got both the Cannot get remote repository refs-problems       Passphrase for     and  Auth fail  in the  Push     dialog    Provided that you already    Setup your SSH keys with Github  Window   Preferences   General   Network Connections   SSH2  Setup your local repository  you can follow this guide for that   Created a Github repository  same guide        here s how you do it    Go to the Git Repositories view  Window   Show View   Other   Git Repositories  Expand your Repository and right click Remotes --   Create Remote   Remote Name   origin   Configure push   checked --  click  OK  Click the  Change     button Paste your git URI and select protocol ssh --  click  Finish  Now  click  Save and Push  and NOW you should get a password prompt --  enter the public key passphrase here  provided that you DID  and you should  setup a passphrase to your public key  --  click  OK  Now you should get a confirmation window saying  Pushed to YourRepository - origin  --  click  OK  Push to upstream  but this time use  Configured remote repository  as your Destination Git repository Go get yourself a well earned cup of coffee

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I updated the plugin with the nightly builds  http   www eclipse org egit download   With an update  it worked for me   Eclipse Helios  Mac OS X

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I run into the same issue   I thought it s something to do with my credentials and authentication   Then finally I realised it s the URI I configured is not HTTP variant    I was trying to push to SSH URI of my Git with HTTP configuration   Check your URL in  Git Perspective   Remotes   Origin   Configure Fetch   Change   Make sure the prtocal is HTTPS and the URL is https version

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Have you tried to use the ssh protocol instead on git ssh   I ve got the same problem  and that solved it  even though official documentation tells to use git ssh

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My fourpenneth  my SSH keys were set up in Cygwin  at C  cygwin home  lt user gt  ssh  so I pointed SSH to this folder instead of the default  Win7  C  Users  lt user gt  ssh  as per these instructions  http   wiki eclipse org EGit User Guide Remote Eclipse SSH Configuration  and used the ssh protocol  and it works fine  Trying to use the git protocol still gives  User not supported on the git protocol   though

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After spending hours looking for the solution to this problem  I finally struck gold by making the changes mentioned on an Eclipse Forum   Steps   Prerequisites  mysysgit is installed with default configuration   1 Create the file C  Users Username  ssh config  Replace  Username  with your Windows 7 user name   e g  C  Users John  ssh config   and put this in it   Host github com HostName github com User git PreferredAuthentications publickey IdentityFile    ssh id rsa   2 Try setting up the remote repository now in Eclipse   Cheers  It should work perfectly

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On Windows  setting GIT SSH to openssh that comes with msys git didn t work  Eclipse hung during commit   Setting it to TortoisePlink solved the problem  I guess original plink would work as well   The added bonus is now Eclipse uses keys stored in pageant

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You need to install msysgit  after installing you need to open Git Bash and enter there these commands     git config --global user name  Gennadiy Zlobin   your name    git config --global user email gennad zlobin gmail com  your email    ssh-keygen -C  gennad zlobin gmail com  -t rsa  your email    Now your generated keys are in C  Users username  ssh  in Windows 7    Next you load the content of your public key to your project on Github  In Eclipse open Window- gt Preferences- gt General- gt Network- gt SSH2 and set your    ssh as SSH Home  After that go to Key Management tab and Load existing Key - set here your private key in    ssh   After that you can push your project to Github  but I set ssh protocol  not git ssh

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I resolved it by selecting https as the protocol and then adding my github username and password

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I discovered that if I set up the two-step authentication in github  Eclipse isn t able to connect to Github - which makes sense because the two-step authentication in github requires you to input a number from an SMS  and Eclipse wouldn t have this information    If this is your scenario  you might consider de-activating your two-step authentication in github  and see if that helps

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In your GIT view where you have your repositories you will see a structure such as    branches tags references remotes etc      Click on remotes  right-click on the url of the repository there and select  Change Credentials

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At the link below I posted what worked for me     http   www eclipse org forums index php t msg amp goto 648905 amp S 9bcfa96ab726d744d41a19c7fb02d723 msg 648905

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For existing ssh keys  I think that it s a bug in Eclipse Juno 3 8   What I did   1  Load the existing key by going to  Window   Preferences    Search ssh    Key Management Tab   Load Existing Key   Select the private key which you already have  2  Save that key by clicking the button Save Private Key  Let s name it id dsa github  3  Now check if push and pull are working or not  It should be   4  Now in the general tab  remove the private key id dsa github and add your previous private key by clicking the button Add private key  Now you are good to go  It s taking at least one time to do all the things from EGit to register  I guess

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I resolved it by selecting http as the protocol and giving my GitHub username and password

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I solved same problem with adding my key to ssh   ssh-add    ssh id rsa    then entered the passphrase and need restart

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