I am trying to read cat id_rsa, but is it throwing

cat: id_rsa: Permission denied

Also is not letting me push changes to the repository by saying

[email protected]: Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

What am i missing

CodePudding user response：

Need root use permission to read this file so use

sudo cat id_rsa

CodePudding user response：

Did you try with sudo to read the file?

sudo cat id_rsa.pub

To my knowledge anyways the ssh key needed for GitHub is the publickey.

To further debug your problem, you might want to make sure that the ssh key is actually added to your github account and has the right permissions. You can debug if your ssh key is being used with your account by following the steps here

further steps of debugging the issue that might be helpful can be found here (e.g. verifying that your user can make connections after verifying the ssh key)