How to use ssh authentication with github API?
curl, github, github-api, ssh
Solution
If you are using ssh, then you would never logon as '`yrstruly`'. You would always connect as 'git'. Your public key would be enough for GitHub to recognize you as '`yrstruly`'. And since you are using an https address, and not an ssh one, that `--pubkey` option is likely to be ignored.
A valid ssh address would be: `ssh://git@api.github.com`, and I don't think Github proposes that kind of access for its api.
The `curl --user` option would be necessary for https address only, as in "Having trouble downloading Git archive tarballs from Private Repo":
curl -sL --user "${username}:${password}" https://github.com...
Problem
Is there some way to use ssh-based authentication when accessing the GitHub API through the command line (via, e.g., curl, etc.?). FWIW, I tried many variations of the following (varying the way I specified my public ssh key file) but in every case I was still prompted for my password: ``` % curl --pubkey ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub --user yrstruly https://api.github.com/user/repos ```