Still requiring login after SSH authentication

Question

I followed everything in the GitHub tutorial: https://help.github.com/articles/generating-ssh-keys

I did all the commands in the directory of my repository. I reached th

Answer 1

Check your remotes via git remote -v.

https:// URLs will always ask for a password, unless you configure a credential helper. More info on that in this question.

The simplest solution for password-less git access would be to use the git remote set-url command and set an SSH url for the existing repo.

In your case, git remote set-url origin git@github.com:name/repo.

Then you should be able to git push origin without being asked for a password.