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Troubleshooting SSH
When using SSH to connect and authenticate to GitHub, you may need to troubleshoot unexpected issues that may arise.
- Using SSH over the HTTPS port
- Recovering your SSH key passphrase
- Deleted or missing SSH keys
- Error: Permission denied (publickey)
- Error: Bad file number
- Error: Key already in use
- Error: Permission to user/repo denied to other-user
- Error: Permission to user/repo denied to user/other-repo
- Error: Agent admitted failure to sign
- Error: ssh-add: illegal option -- K
- Error: SSL certificate problem, verify that the CA cert is OK
- Error: Unknown key type
- Error: We're doing an SSH key audit
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