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

I have just experienced this issue while setting my current project, and none of the above solution works. so i tried looking what's really happening on the debug list using the command ssh -vT git@github.com. I notice that my private key filename is not on the list. so renaming the private key filename to 'id_rsa' do the job. hope this could help.