heroku - rails - Permission denied (publickey)

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heroku create
Creating floating-planet-1824......................... done, stack is bamboo-mri-1.9.2
http://floating-planet-1824.heroku.com/ | git@heroku.com:floating-planet-1824.git

git push heroku master
Warning: Permanently added the RSA host key for IP address '50.19.85.156' to the list of known hosts.
Agent admitted failure to sign using the key.
Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

I generated ssh keys ok.

Rebooting didn't help.

score 29 · Accepted Answer · answered May 20 '12 at 04:47

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It turned out that

heroku keys:add ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

worked.

answered May 20 '12 at 04:47

Michael Durrant

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score 20 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 28 '12 at 06:05

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this is how i solved mine

$ heroku keys:clear
Removing all SSH keys... done
$ heroku login

after clearing all previous ssh. heroku login's uploads back my ssh public key and i can happily git push heroku master back

answered Aug 28 '12 at 06:05

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score 15 · Answer 3 · edited Jun 24 '14 at 12:57

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Assuming you already have a public and a private key to use in your ~/.ssh folder, there might be two different scenarios:

You didn't upload your public key to Heroku's remote server. Solution, execute: heroku keys:add ~/.ssh/your_public_key
Or you did, but you don't have your identities loaded into your SSH authentication agent. Solution, execute:

ssh-add -K ~/.ssh/your_private_key # OSX

ssh-add -k ~/.ssh/your_private_key # Ubuntu

and enter your passphrase, so you can use your private key.

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answered Feb 06 '13 at 17:39

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The second one was just the thing! Thanks. – Steve Davis Feb 21 '13 at 16:50
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Updated answer to show that the `-k` / `-K` option depends on OS. – Michael Durrant Jun 24 '14 at 12:58
Thanks!, I only had a Mac to test it. – Luis Ortega Araneda Jun 25 '14 at 16:35

score 5 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 18 '12 at 13:10

The problem which i face was setting the ssh environment variable.

SSH_AUTH_SOCK=0

heroku keys

will show the keys, remove and then login, it will create one for you and add to your app. Or you can create your rsa key with your email and then use it using

heroku keys:add /path

Generate key using ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "your_email@youremail.com"

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Mar 20 '13 at 13:10

In case others are facing the same problem: using standalone toolbelt on fedora 16-17 with rmv 1.17.3 and system ruby 1.9.3p392, just clearing heroku keys and credentials was not sufficient, and I tested that the issue was not with my ssh keychain. If anyone has faced similar issues, and is more familiar with the heroku toolbelt, I posted a new issue here.

heroku - rails - Permission denied (publickey)

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