SSH Agent Forwarding not working

Question

I'm having an hard time trying to configure Capistrano 3.1 to deploy an app hosted on Github. I'm following Capistrano Documentation and I have successfully completed the first step (SSH keys from workstation to servers) and on the second one (From our servers to the repository host) I'm able to successfully run `ssh -A deploy@one-of-my-servers.com 'git ls-remote git@github.com:my_user/my_repo.git'`: ``` 18f38afz261df35d462f7f4e2ca847d22f148a06 HEAD 18f38afz261df35d462f7f4e2ca847d22f148a06 refs/heads/master ``` however, `ssh deploy@one-of-my-servers.com 'git ls-remote git@github.com:my_user/my_repo.git'` fails: ``` Permission denied (publickey). ``` Capistrano docs suggests If you get the error "host key verification failed." log in into your server and run as the deploy user the command ssh git@github.com to add github.com to the list of known hosts. SO, I tried so but I get ``` ssh git@github.com Warning: Permanently added the RSA host key for IP address '192.30.252.131' to the list…

Accepted Answer

Do you have your ssh key added to the list of agent identites ?

You can check with `ssh-add -L` , you should see the key your are using to connect to github :

```
$ ssh-add -L
ssh-rsa AAAAB3N.....0VmSiRvTzBrbU0ww== /Users/youruser/.ssh/id_rsa
```

If you don't see the ssh key you use for github or a message like

The agent has no identities.

Then you should add your key with :

```
ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa
```

(replace with the path to the key you use for github)

See the ssh-add doc for more info

SSH Agent Forwarding not working

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