Egit Refuses to accept id_rsa

Question

I\'m a first time git user trying to setup egit in Eclipse so I can continue to easily code through Eclipse. Problem is, every time I try to clone a repo through egit, it gives

Answer 1

It looks like your /Users/elifinkelshteyn/.ssh/id_rsa file requires a password, and I'm not sure that the ssh implementation in Eclipse knows how to prompt you for one. It's tickling the back of my brain that there's probably an ssh-auth package you need to install for the mac so that it can prompt, and if you can find out more about that, it's probably ideal. However, a workaround in the short term is to generate a new rsa key that doesn't use a password, upload that to github, and set eclipse to use it.