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FiloSottile

Hi! A few reasons it might fail:

* You don't have your SSH keys on GitHub

* You don't have your GitHub keys on that laptop

* Your key is not RSA (because I'm LAZY)

* Your ssh version uses only recent algorithms not supported by Go's x/crypto/ssh

* You actually disabled IdentityKeys

Nothing to do with usernames or heuristics, by the way. All it does is first enumerate your client keys, then let you in, then check a huge GitHub keys database, then ask the GitHub API for your name.

https://github.com/FiloSottile/whosthere#how-it-works

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It also does not work with keys from a smartcard (yubikey NEO). Here is the ssh log:

    debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
    debug1: Offering RSA public key: cardno:000603010929
    debug2: we sent a publickey packet, wait for reply
    debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,keyboard-interactive
    debug1: Trying private key: /home/pbonzini/.ssh/id_rsa
    debug1: Trying private key: /home/pbonzini/.ssh/id_dsa
    debug1: Trying private key: /home/pbonzini/.ssh/id_ecdsa
    debug1: Trying private key: /home/pbonzini/.ssh/id_ed25519
    debug2: we did not send a packet, disable method
    debug1: No more authentication methods to try.

- The key might be to new for the dataset.

This was the case for me. The keys I'm using now I added this past weekend, and I get the "couldn't find you" message.

I'm using ed25519 with Github, figured it was just laziness. (also deliberately set it up to send that key because it wouldn't normally).

Whenever I push, I login. Apparently this laziness saved my ass this time. Of course, this could be used on any service I ssh into regularly and has a scrappable listing of users, so it's good of you to bring this up.

I had the same result, and was rather surprised. It's probably because I have a DSA key.

Aren't these published by github too?

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