Re: remote: Permission denied when trying to push

[Torsten]

On 14.01.2018 00:47, Ben Abbott wrote:
>> On Jan 13, 2018, at 11:06 AM, Ben Abbott <address@hidden
>> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Jan 13, 2018, at 10:53 AM, Ben Abbott <address@hidden
>>> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I attempted to push a changeset to enable Java support on macOS, but
>>> encountered "remote: Permission denied”
>>>
>>> Its been some time since I pushed a change so perhaps my permissions
>>> have been curtailed?
>>>
>>> In any event, the changeset is attached.
>>>
>>> Ben
>>>
>>> <changeset.patch>
>>
>> hmmm … maybe I’m just having a firewall problem. I’ll try later when
>> I’m at home.
>>
>> Ben
> 
> Nope. Something is wrong. 
> 
> hg push ssh://address@hidden/octave
> pushing to ssh://address@hidden/octave
> address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>'s password: 
> address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>'s password: 
> remote: Permission denied, please try again.
> remote: Received disconnect from 208.118.235.201 port 22:2: Too many
> authentication failures for bpabbott
> remote: Disconnected from 208.118.235.201 port 22
> abort: no suitable response from remote hg!
> 
> Ben

The remote host is asking for your password although you are connecting
via ssh where authentication should be handled via a private/public key
pair. Maybe you have to load your private key via ssh-add before pushing.

Torsten