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André Pena •

This article was very useful, but to help people coming from Google, this error (Permission denied (publickey)) also happens if your identity is not set correctly.

When you do ssh_keygen it will generate a new SSH key, which the default name is id_rsa. If your computer happens to have another key already, with another name, your identity might be set to that key.

You should edit ~/.ssh/config, and make sure IdentityFile is set to the correct private key

Host *
  AddKeysToAgent yes
  UseKeychain yes
  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa
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Angelo Moroni •

I solved using this solutions

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Tyler Butler • • Edited

Thanks for the quick solution! If your on a mac you wanna make this edit here /private/etc/ssh/ssh_config

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Lauriano Elmiro Duarte • • Edited

I lost my access to DigitalOcean,
this tip of yours was my salvation, change the file name to id_rsa

Thanks