git push is failing - Permission denied (publickey)

Question

I have a gerrit server with multiple repos.

in the manifest i am using the https://url and it works fine for fetching.

i set a sshl pushurl="ssh://ssh-dns-name:29418" (note no username as part of this).

When i do the sync all the projects have remotes like -

origin  https://url/my_project  (fetch)
origin ssh://ssh-dns-name:2941/my_project (push)

now, when i do push, the git is complaining that Permission denied (publickey)!!!

i see that the user.name and user.email are setup properly. user.name "Abhayadev S" (whic is setup in gerrit as user Full name) and user.email "abhayadevs...@in.com" which is setup in gerrit as user email

also my client machine login name is "abhayadevs" which is the gerrit username.

if i use the username in the pushurl ( ssh://abhayadevs@ssh-dns-name:29418 ), everything is working fine !

so i am confused, why git is not taking the username !!!! i checked the git config --local --list , nothing is set locally..! only global git config has the user.name and user.email !!!

Answer 1

The user.name and user.email configurations have no effect on authentication in any way. They affect only the personal name and email address you put in a commit or tag.

If it works for you to put the username in the push URL, then do that: that's the simplest, easiest way to make this work. Every user using a site such as GitHub or GitLab must put the username ( git ) in the URL, so doing so shouldn't be a problem. If you don't specify a username, the default is determined by OpenSSH and usually defaults to that of your local user, although it is case sensitive. You can also override it explicitly in ~/.ssh/config if you need to, but it's probably just easier to specify it in the URL.