Eclipse + Egit + Github == Failed authentication

[Stephen Gallagher]

On Thu 20 Dec 2012 01:14:50 AM EST, Dave Quigley wrote:
> I'm trying to get Eclipse working with Github on F17 and I've been
> following a tutorial and I keep getting this error.
>
> ssh://git@github.com:22:
> org.eclipse.jgit.transport.CredentialItem$StringType:Passphrase for
> /home/dpquigl/.ssh/github
>
>
> I tried adding the passphrase for the github key with ssh-add but it
> doesn't seem to be working. Does anyone have any idea how I can get
> the passphrase into egit so that I can put to the remote github repo?
>
> Dave

http://wiki.eclipse.org/EGit/User_Guide/Remote#Eclipse_SSH_Configuration