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My Github account currently does not have any SSH keys (I believe it previously did have a key, but I deleted it a while ago). However, whenever I use git push and git pull from my personal computer, they do not require me to enter a password, and they run without any trouble.

  1. How is this possible if the Github server doesn't have the public key?
  2. Can I allow password-less push and pull from another computer without uploading a public key for it?

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Check first what you get with:

cd /path/to/local/repository git remote -v

If you see an URL starting with https://... , then SSH keys are not involved/needed at all.

Your credentials (GitHub user account/password) are probably cached by your credential helper. Check which helper is used with:

git config credential.helper
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Fascinating! I do indeed see https:// instead of git@. I ran git config --list --show-origin and it shows I have a single solitary system-level config in /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/share/git-core/gitconfig that I never knew existed! When I run git config credential.helper it returns that system-level config, called osxkeychain.
How did osxkeychain obtain my Github credentials?
@efthimio I supposed it asks for said credential just once in the past, and keep them ever since.

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