Git Permission denied publickey fatal - Could not read from remote repository while cloning Git repository

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I am unable to clone a Git repository  and getting this error   krishna soni KRISHNACHANDRAS  c Projects   git clone http   stage abc com 10088 pqr http    lt url gt   lt repository gt  Cloning into   lt repository gt      fatal  could not read Username for  http    lt url gt    No such file or directory   I ve read Bitbucket  Windows and    fatal  could not read Password for     but still have the problem   I proceeded further but am now getting this error  sh exe   chown  command not found  krishna soni KRISHNACHANDRAS  c   git clone ssh   krishna sonipayu in stage payupaisa   projects Cloning into  C  projects     Permission denied  publickey   fatal  Could not read from remote repository   Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists    gt  krishna soni KRISHNACHANDRAS  c  gt        git clone ssh  lt url gt   gt      ts  gt      Cloning into  C  projects      gt      Permission denied  publickey    gt      fatal  Could not read from remote repository   Please make sure you have the correct access rights   and the repository exists

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While cloning  I had a similar issue   my ERROR      Permission denied  publickey      fatal  Could not read from remote repository     Please make sure you have the correct access rights     etc     -- I was using bitBucket UBUNTU14 04 in my case  but ALREADY had a set of key files that I had previously generated AND I had changed the name of the files  I simply COPIED the files to the standard id rsa  amp  id rsa pub name format  I then re-ran the command with out issue    OBTW  I could have also used the password prompt by using the HTTP style clone

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Remove remote origin git remote remove origin Add HTTP remote origin

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fix for hub cli tool    git config --global hub protocol https for long term git remote add OOPS https   github com isomorphisms go git  amp  amp  git push OOPS for immediate fix     This error occurs with the hub command line tool because of their wrong default hub protocol git-config value  They set repos to  git   github com schacon ticgit git   instead of what github actually accepts  namely https   github com schacon ticgit git     Reading LESS    HTTPS instead  man hub will explain where the above  long-term fix  command comes from

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I followed the steps detailed in Generating a new SSH key and adding it to the ssh-agent and Auto-launching ssh-agent on Git for Windows  In my case    profile file was not present in my Windows  I had to create it  then added the script provided in the above link

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I had the same error   My solution was to logout and login again as my ssh-agent had become out of sync with the remote ssh key     Adding this here just in case anyone has seen that the other answers don t seem to apply to their situation

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If you generate new public ssh key and inserted it to bitbucket or github and   it not helped - please try to restart your PC  It helped me

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You need to create a new ssh key by running ssh-keygen -t rsa

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I had a similar problem on linux   I solved the problem by logging into the github server and creating a deploy key   That s under settings for the repository   Then  I copied and pasted my public key  which is usually in    ssh id rsa pub  but your configuration might be different   There is a check box to give this key write access   Click on it  unless you are using git to deploy only  in which case  don t click on it

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Github or Bitbucket  can t find your ssh key in their server   Just add your key in your account setting

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If you want to clone open source projects to submit a Pull Request   I wanted to clone an open source project so I could submit some pull requests  The problem was that I didn t have permissions from the owner of the project  No matter  since my intention was to submit a PR  here is a viable alternative    My solution    Fork Repository      Then clone from your forked repository   Work on your features and then submit a pull request

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If all fails  as was the case with me  Uninstall GIT  reinstall  For some reason this fixes   P S     I tried generating new Keys and Updating at SSH public keys Also tried deleting all keys and tried to create a fresh key  And NO  nothing wrong with my  gitconfig

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I also faced the same issue  I did the following and it worked for me    Generate Keys from the GIT GUI client on Windows  Copy this key to the clipboard  Open up your account on bitBucket  git website  and add this key to your profile  This way  the server knows that you are a legitimate user accessing from a legitimate system   That s it  All push commands worked for me henceforth

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For me  when i wanted to clone from my repository  i had the same message noticed before  Permission denied  publickey  fatal  Could not read from remote repository   The solution for my case is to not use sudo before clone  That s it

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It looks like a permissions issue - not a Windows 7 issue    Your ssh key is not authorised - Permission denied  publickey     You need to create a public ssh key and ask the administrator of the Git repository to add the ssh public key  Information on how to do this  Saving ssh key fails

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I ve had this issue on a Mac - while I setup SSH correctly to access my Git repository  after restart  and some time the Mac was on a standoff   all my credentials were removed  Apparently  for some reason the pub key was set to 644 which caused it to be removed from the keychain  To readd    chmod 600 the public key ssh-add    ssh  your private key  - this should display that identity has been added  The key file you want is the one without the  pub extension  ssh-add -l should show you newly added identity   edit  apparently MacOS has tendency of removing keys - after downloading the High Sierra update  but I ve not installed it yet  my key has been removed and I ve had to add it again via ssh-add

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solution  On the server you are trying to clone to or push from cat    ssh id rsa pub Go to GitHub  settings  SSH and GPG Keys   New SSH key paste key

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You can try adding your ssh key to your private keychain  It worked for me  ssh-add -K    ssh  your-private-key

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I had the similar issue   I change the ssh keys and restarted and tried all other  n  solutions  But the actual issue for me was our gitlab default protocol changed from ssh to https   check the remote url with   git remote -v   change the remote url   git remote set-url origin https   URL

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I faced the same issue while running git clone command from windows command line  But the command runs successfully from Git Bash

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If there is still issue around access after creating SSH and adding it in your Bitbucket account or wherever  you need to do the following in terminal on GitBash  OSX or Linux     Lists already added identities     ssh keys     ssh-add -l   Then  if you don t see your key listed  add it with the following  replace identity with its real name      Add a new identity ssh-add    ssh identity   This worked for me

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In macOS   Linux  Ubuntu   1  To Authenticate you need to add your public part of your SSH key pair to bitbucket from within your user settings  User Settings -- gt  SSH keys You will find the said public part in your    ssh directory  usually id rsa pub   note the   pub part of the file name for Public  it will help you to generate one if you don t already have one  You are not done yet      2  You need to let your system know what key to use with which remote host  so add these lines to your    ssh config file Host bitbucket org  IdentityFile    ssh PRIVATE KEY FILE NAME  Where PRIVATE KEY FILE NAME is the name of private part of your SSH key pair  if you haven t messed with it  usually its default name is   id rsa in this case replace PRIVATE KEY FILE NAME above with id rsa the private key  DOES NOT have a   pub extension

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I see this errormessage has a lot of different reasons  I had the same error when trying to set up locally another repository alongside one already fully working with ssh etc  and connect it to same server  but other repository  No answers were here to be found  but I figured it out  So I post it  Hopefully helps someone   git remote add origin git git ourserver com teamalpha repositorytwo git

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Useful thread and I don t bring much new to the table  The step I took is also part of the description Maxime helpfully points to but some may overlook it  The section is Adding your SSH key to the ssh-agent   I had already generated my ssh-key but after a reboot I was unable to clone one of my own repositories   I had to start the ssh-agent and add the private key to this agent in order to clone   eval   ssh-agent -s  ssh-add    ssh id rsa

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I got the error       Permission denied  publickey   fatal  Could not read from remote repository  Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists       when I was trying to make contact from a Git Bash prompt to Bitbucket after my laptop died from a bad Windows 10 update and was returned to factory settings   I had restored all my ssh files from a backup   The cause of the error turned out to be a mismatch in my Windows account name after the computer rebuild   I learned that the public key file id rsa pub ends with an easily readable string comprising my Windows account name followed by an   sign and then the computer name   When I originally set up my computer  I created my Windows account name including my middle initial but when my computer was reset to factory settings  our new DevOps guy created my account name without my middle initial   To resolve the issue  I simply edited my public key file id rsa pub and removed the middle initial in my name at the end   I had stuck with the same computer name so that was okay   I copied the file contents to the Windows clipboard  I then signed into Bitbucket  went to Bitbucket Settings under my avatar  and added a new public key where I pasted in the new contents    Back at the Git Bash prompt  I confirmed that it now worked by entering the command     ssh -T git bitbucket org      and I got back a message that I was signed in

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It may be stupid but it happened to us   If you are using bitbucket and Sourcetree and you just copy paste the clone URL to the new repo dialog it will show the same error when pulling or pushing   Make sure you delete the  git clone  stuff before the URL

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For people that come here that are just trying to get the repository but don t care about the protocol  ssh   https   you might just want to use https instead of ssh  if it s supported    So for example you use   git clone https   github com  REPOSITORYFOLDER   REPOSITORYNAME  git   instead of  git clone git github com  REPOSITORYFOLDER   REPOSITORYNAME  git

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I faced the same problem with GitHub  Here s how to solve it    Generate a SSH key on your computer as described here   Generating SSH keys  Login your GitHub account  GitHub Login  In your account  add the newly generated SSH Key  My account SSH keys  Try again to git clone the project

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I was facing the same issue while setting up ssh for gitlab  I already have ssh for github and i could not overwrite that  The steps that worked for me are     Generate SSH with new path and add it to ssh list ssh-add  path to new id rsa  Create a file named config in    ssh  using  I used vi    ssh config   Add this to the newly created file     GitLab com server Host gitlab com RSAAuthentication yes IdentityFile  path to new id rsa   Save and quit    After that restart the terminal and try pushing  it should work

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if  none of these answers help and   you are using Windows you generate your key with Putty or you have installed Putty on your PC you generate your key with CMD or PowerShell   Try   delete your keys search on windows for Git Bash  then generate a new key with Git Bash command line add public key to your online Repo   Then  you will find after git clone and type yes to confirm  it should begin to clone

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After changing permissions of folder in which I was cloning  it worked  sudo chown -R ubuntu ubuntu  var projects

[git] Git: Permission denied (publickey) fatal - Could not read from remote repository. while cloning Git repository

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