Can I test authentication with an RSA key locally?

Question

Is there a way to check locally if you\'re providing the correct passphrase to an RSA key?

I recently had trouble pushing some commits to github because the push prompte

Answer 1

Or as pointed here: How can I test my ssh-keys locally without a server

You can do this:

ssh-keygen -y

And this doesn't require any server (works great with msysgit on Windows).