Push to GitHub without a password using ssh-key

Question

I generated an SSH key pair without a password and added the public key to GitHub.

Connection with

user@dev:/var/www/project# ssh -T [email protected] Hi User! You've successfully authenticated, but GitHub does not provide shell access. 

was successful and when I rename the key, it fails.

But when I want to push my changes, it stills ask me for my username and password combination.

Is there a way to push without a password?

Answer 1

If it is asking you for a username and password, your origin remote is pointing at the HTTPS URL rather than the SSH URL.

Change it to ssh.

For example, a GitHub project like Git will have an HTTPS URL:

https://github.com/<Username>/<Project>.git 

And the SSH one:

[email protected]:<Username>/<Project>.git 

You can do:

git remote set-url origin [email protected]:<Username>/<Project>.git 

to change the URL.