Oh well. I have a ssh-agent running. I am using Git Bash on a W11 machine.

$ ssh-add

Could not open a connection to your authentication agent.

BTW. I am also trying to get SourceTree to work. I have Pageant running with my keys loaded.

I noticed that I do not have my most recent public key loaded on Gitlab (but it has two old ones that *shoould* still work). But the site does not understand (and I do not fuc*ing understand) the format in which the key should be pasted in there.

I generated the key with Pageant and the file contains what you see in the screenshots.

I apologize for the tone, but I really really believe that both Github and Gitlab have gone way off on a tangent with all of this. Especially because they have not gone back to git to improve the messaging.

All the best

Marco

On Sun, Mar 27, 2022 at 4:22 PM Jon Boone <ipmonger@delamancha.org> wrote:

If you’re using a bash/zsh environment, use ‘ssh-add’ to load your private keys into the ssh agent before you interact with the remote repository.

— jb
On Mar 27, 2022, 10:20 -0400, Marco Antoniotti <marco.antoniotti@unimib.it>, wrote:
Hi

I am trying to import a repo in Gitlab. I just created the repo using the web interface (CL-PLOT).

This is what the instructions on the site say.
cd existing_repo
git remote rename origin old-origin
git remote add origin git@common-lisp.net:mantoniotti/cl-plot.git
git push -u origin --all
git push -u origin --tags
Once I try git push I get the dreaded message.

$ git push -u origin --all
git@common-lisp.net: Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.

Why? I.e., why doesn't git understand the 2FA I set up a long time ago? Why I cannot get my SSH keys to work? How can I change the remote spec in order not to have to go through this every other month?

Thank you

All the best

Marco

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