Permission denied (public key) during fetch from GitHub with Jenkins user on Ubuntu

Question

Here is my setup:

1. Jenkins is running on my linux machine as \'jenkins\' user.
2. I have generated a ssh key-pair as described in Linux - Setup Git, for the \

Answer 1

Since nobody wrote the answer from the comments for several months, I will quickly do so.

There are 2 possible problems/solutions:

1. id_rsa created with wrong user

   Create id_rsa as the jenkins user (see hudson cannot fetch from git repository)

2. Leave passphrase empty