Heroku - Added SSH public key and still getting Permission denied (publickey) error

Question

Uploaded to Heroku many times before and don't know what's wrong this time-- maybe it's because I'm using public internet?

Anyway, so I added a new public key with

>heroku keys:add
Found existing public key: C:/Users/Chris/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
Uploading SSH public key C:/Users/Chris/.ssh/id_rsa.pub...done

>git push heroku master
Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

Why can't I push to heroku?

I checked my keys

heroku keys

and my terminal came up correctly, so it should be working. Anyone shed some light?

Answer 1

Maybe the ssh session doesn't know where to find the private key associated to your public key, which can happen if %HOME% isn't defined to C:/Users/Chris.
(and remember, HOME isn't defined by default on Windows)

You can:

• make sure HOME is set
• define a %HOME%/.ssh/config file

Host heroku
Hostname heroku.com 
Port 22 
IdentitiesOnly yes 
IdentityFile /C/Users/Chris/.ssh/id_rsa # location and name of your private key
TCPKeepAlive yes 
User git

• under a bash session, check the permissions (for .ssh and the keys).
• clone the heroku repo: git clone heroku:yourRepo
• make some commits and push from there.