I've been somewhat 'putting up' with GitHub always asking for my username and password when I clone a repository. I want to bypass this step because it is an annoyance within my workflow.
I tried setting up an SSH key (which I successfully did) using this guide. https://help.github.com/articles/generating-ssh-keys and I was successful.
My problem is that I am still asked for my GitHub password and passphrase when cloning a repository (using SSH). My understanding was that after I set up this SSH key, I would no longer have to do that.
I want to be able to clone repositories without having to put in my GitHub information all the time.
What am I missing with my SSH key? If anyone can provide some guidance or resources I would appreciate it, because I've always felt a little lost when it came to SSH authentication in GitHub.
From my knowledge, this is a command that tests if things are working properly, here are the output from my console:
~ $ ssh -T git@github.com
Saving password to keychain failed
Enter passphrase for key '/Users/MYNAME/.ssh/id_rsa':
Hi MYNAME! You've successfully authenticated, but GitHub does not provide shell access.
When I input my password, should that fail first? Then, when I enter my passphrase, it passes.
If you work with HTTPs urls, it'll always ask for your username / password. This could be solved using @Manavalan Gajapathy's comment (copying here):
See this github doc to convert remote's URL from https to ssh. To check if remote's URL is ssh or https, use git remote -v. To switch from https to ssh:
git remote set-url origin git@github.com:USERNAME/REPOSITORY.git
If you're correctly using SSH when cloning / setting remotes: make sure you have a ssh-agent to remember your password (see this answer by @Komu). That way, you'll only enter your passphrase once by terminal session.
If it is still too annoying, then simply set a ssh-key without passphrase.