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arnaudb
New Contributor
2 years ago

SSH Agent : Connection refused

Not sure if it's related to an update, everything was working fine so far. I can't get the agent to load the keys on git requests anymore. The problem : git fetch git@github.com: Permission...
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Michael_Mercuri
Frequent Contributor
2 years ago

I replied earlier, but not sure what happened to it.

One issue with GitHub is your config is specifying github.com-arnaudb as the host, but the git fetch command in your original post is using github.com:


git fetch git@github.com: Permission denied (publickey)

It's also notable that based on the error, Permission denied (publickey), your public key was obtained and tried.

For troubleshooting, try making the following updates to your ~/.ssh/config:


Host github.com-arnaudb github.com
User git
Hostname github.com
IdentityAgent "~/Library/Group Containers/2BUA8C4S2C.com.1password/t/agent.sock"
ForwardAgent yes`

(note User git added and Host updated to include github.com.)

Then try issuing ssh -v -T git@github.com.

If it works you should see:


Hi <your GitHub username>! You've successfully authenticated, but GitHub does not provide shell access.

The -v option will help determine which keys (if any) were tried.

But none of this explains why the ssh-add -l command you posted with SSH_AUTH_SOCK set is receiving a connection refused error.