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

It worked for me.

Your public key is saved to the id_rsa.pub;file and is the key you upload to your account. You can save this key to the clipboard by running this:

pbcopy < ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

• copy the SSH key to the clipboard, return to the web portal.
• In the SSH Key field, paste your SSH key.
• In the Name field, provide a name for the key.
• save .