Bad file permissions prevent SSH access to Github

You might be trying to access GitHub from the Windows command line, but get the message "Could not open a connection to your authentication agent.":

$ ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa

Could not open a connection to your authentication agent.



$ eval 'ssh-agent -s'

SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-z8CtJ8nsSdBL/agent.6724; export SSH_AUTH_SOCK;

SSH_AGENT_PID=6672; export SSH_AGENT_PID;

echo Agent pid 6672;



$ ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa

Could not open a connection to your authentication agent.



$ eval "$(ssh-agent)"

Agent pid 6500


$ ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa

Identity added: /c/Users/username/.ssh/id_rsa (/c/Users/username/.ssh/id_rsa)



$ ssh -vT git@github.com

Permission denied (publickey).

$ cd .ssh

~/.ssh $ ls

AGAIN      github_rsa      key      known_hosts  new_key.pub

AGAIN.pub  github_rsa.pub  key.ppk  new_key

Here's the real problem: the file permissions on the key files are wrong.

~/.ssh $ chmod 700 id_rsa

~/.ssh $ cd ..

~ $ ssh -vT git@github.com

Enter passphrase for key '/c/Users/Roderick/.ssh/id_rsa':

Hi username! You've successfully authenticated, but GitHub does not provide she

ll access.

debug1: channel 0: free: client-session, nchannels 1

debug1: Transferred: stdin 0, stdout 0, stderr 0 bytes in 0.2 seconds

debug1: Bytes per second: stdin 0.0, stdout 0.0, stderr 0.0

debug1: Exit status 1