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

I would add that if you created the keys by hand, they might still be owned by you and not readable by jenkins, try:

sudo chown jenkins -R /var/lib/jenkins/.ssh/*