Permission denied when trying to give Jenkins ssh access to private github repo

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I have a private repository (organization repo) in github.

I generated rsa keys, added the public one to the github repo (with read access only).

I created credentials on Jenkins. I added the private key to it:

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When configuring the job, it gives me the following error:

Failed to connect to repository : Command "git ls-remote -h [email protected]:XXX-Team/XXx-datalake-dataflow.git HEAD" returned status code 128: stdout: stderr: Permission denied (publickey). fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists

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Could someone explain what I did wrong and how to fix it ?

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Have you verified you can ssh to github with the private key? You should see a message saying you've successfully authenticated. – Stephen Newell
@StephenNewell Yes, I can clone with this SSH key. – Itération 122442
I checked my jobs, and I'm using the ID field for credentials, and it looks like you're using the username. For what it's worth I'm using pipelines, but I assume it'd be the same for other job types. – Stephen Newell
Can you elaborate on that ? I'm using freestyle project and in the credentials list, there is only "none" and the one I selected. @StephenNewell – Itération 122442

2 Answers

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I forgot to put the passphrase of the private key when creating the credentials on Jenkins...

Thanks @VonC for his answer that made me think about it. enter image description here

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Double check (again) that ssh -Tv -i /path/to/private_key [email protected] does work.

Then double-check you have copied the full private key, from -----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY----- up until -----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----