The One with the Thoughts of Frans

Thanks to gnome-keyring you won’t get a useful error message. If you uninstall it, you’ll get the real culprit right where it matters, but in retrospect ssh-add gives you the same error message:

$ git pull upstream master 
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@         WARNING: UNPROTECTED PRIVATE KEY FILE!          @
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Permissions 0644 for '/home/frans/.ssh/id_rsa' are too open.
It is required that your private key files are NOT accessible by others.
This private key will be ignored.
Load key "/home/frans/.ssh/id_rsa": bad permissions
git@github.com: Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

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

That means something like this, or maybe just read:

So much for the GitHub help. 🙂