Git error Permission denied (publickey), couldn't paste publickey

Question

Upon git pull on Mac terminal to GitHub, it returns an error showing permission denied (public key)

I've looked through this earlier stack overflow thread but upon

cat id_rsa.pub | bcopy

it shows no such file or directory. what should i do?

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 18 '16 at 07:50

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upon cat id_rsa.pub | bcopy it shows no such file or directory. what should i do?

Make sure $HOME (Linux or Mac) or %HOME% (Windows) is set.
Generate an ssh key (that will create $HOME/.ssh/id_rsa and $HOME/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
Make sure your public key is registered on the remote server side.

Follow for instance, depending on your remote repos server:

edited Jun 18 '16 at 07:50

StephenKing

answered Jun 18 '16 at 07:37

VonC

I'm not great at config at all. what does it mean 'Make sure $HOME is set'? – santoku Jun 18 '16 at 10:49
You are on Mac, so it should be OK. You can check with typing in a shell echo $HOME. – VonC Jun 18 '16 at 11:03

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