How to solve Permission denied (publickey) error when using Git?

Question

I\'m on Mac Snow Leopard and I just installed git.

I just tried

git clone git@thechaw.com:cakebook.git

but that gives

Answer 1

Guys this is how it worked for me:

1. Open terminal and go to user [See attached image]
2. Open .ssh folder and make sure it doesn't have any file like id_rsa or id_rsa.pub otherwise sometimes it wont properly rewrite files
3. git --version [Check for git installation and version]
4. git config --global user.email "your email id"
5. git config --global user.name "your name"
6. git config --list [make sure you have set your name & email]
7. cd ~/.ssh
8. ssh-keygen, it prompts for saving file, allow it
9. cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub [Access your public key & copy the key to gerrit settings]

Note: You should not be using the sudo command with Git. If you have a very good reason you must use sudo, then ensure you are using it with every command (it's probably just better to use su to get a shell as root at that point). If you generate SSH keys without sudo and then try to use a command like sudo git push, you won't be using the same keys that you generated