JOSEPH A TUCKER

Small newbie error occurred for me. I got "git@github.com: Permission denied (publickey)." There were two problems. There was a prompt that had asked me for a name for the file for the generated key. I didn't know that this had to be a particular name, so I made up my own name. Also, the two files created were placed in the wrong folder. So I moved the files that I renamed to id_rsa.pub and id_rsa from my home directory to the folder /.ssh and then tried to connect again. This time I was successful.