git fatal Could not read from remote repository

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I am trying to set git up with http   danielmiessler com study git  website to manage my site   I have gotten to the last step in the instructions   git push website  master refs heads master  I am working using the git ming32 command line in win7    git push website  master refs heads master Bill     com s password  Connection closed by 198 91 80 3 fatal  Could not read from remote repository   Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists    One problem here may be that the program is looking for Bill     com  when I connect via ssh to my site I have a different username  lets say  abc    so maybe this should be abc     com  If so I don t know how to change this or if I can push under an alias

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I have tried everything including generating new key  adding to the GitHub account  editing  ssh config and  git config  But still it was giving me the same error  Then I tried following command and it does work successfully  ssh-agent bash -c  ssh-add    ssh id rsa  git clone git github com username repo git

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I faced the same issue  simply you can run this on your command window   git remote add origin https   your repository url

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Adding to the  I had the same problem and      I am also using git via Ming32  git bash  shell in Windows   In my case the repo requires me to type a password  not using SSH key  but it was not prompting for the password  just saying  fatal  Could not read      although I could SSH in normally  using plink and ssh  and had set both known-host keys   I tried most of the recommendations here and in other SOs   I found in the end it worked fine in Powershell  but not in git bash  with no changes or corrections

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If after git push origin master  command u see the error  could not read from remote repository  then try this out   1 ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C  youremail  2 eval   ssh-agent -s  3 ssh-add    ssh id rsa 4 clip  lt     ssh id rsa pub it copies the ssh key that has got generated  5 then go to your remote repository on github and goto settings- gt  SSH and GPG keys - gt new SSH key - gt enter any title and paste the copied SSH key and save it 6  now give git push origin master

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I ve got this error after changing computers  I m using SourceTree with Bitbucket   So I had to add the SSH key generated by SourceTree  on the new computer  in Bitbucket Settings   Security   SSH keys  while connected to my Bitbucket account on the web

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Not the OP  problem  but if you re working in a GitHub organization  team  you might not have write permissions on the repository  Unfortunately  git doesn t show more specific permissions errors  In my case  I was working on a private repository  and had been given  quot Triage quot  or  quot Read quot  access  For more information about repository access for each permission level  see GitHub documentation  The link to change this on GitHub is https   github com orgs ORGANISATION NAME teams TEAM NAME repositories  where you can change the permissions given to the team

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This is usually caused due to the SSH key is not matching with the remote    Solutions    Go to terminal and type the following command  Mac  Linux  replace with your email id   ssh-keygen -t rsa -C  you email com  Copy the generated key using following command starting from word ssh   cat    ssh id rsa pub Paste it in github  bitbucket or gitlab respective of your remote  Save it

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In my case the problem and it s solution was written right in front of me  Earlier that day I edited the  etc ssh ssh config file and added some keys  The error said     etc ssh ssh config  line 52  Bad configuration option  allowusers  etc ssh ssh config  terminating  1 bad configuration options fatal  Could not read from remote repository    I deleted the allowusers key and it s value and everything worked as expected

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It could be a Network issue   Try doing the ssh -vvvT git gitlab com  If the server hangs unexpectedly it could be a dodgy network connection   Put the following in your    ssh config  IPQoS lowdelay throughput

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Another workaround    Sometimes this happens to me because of network problems  I don t understand the root problem fully  but switching to a different sub-network or using VPN solves it

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I just wanted to add to this question  I had Git setup to use PLink and Pageant for authentication and I was also getting the error FATAL ERROR  Disconnected  No supported authentication methods available  server sent  publickey   I had Pageant opened but the error was still showing up  The problem  I didn t have the private key loaded in Pageant  to add a key  follow these instructions   It was that simple

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If you have set recievepack  or uploadpack in my case i got the error after setting them by mistake  receivepack   powershell git receive-pack   in my case in  git config  You can remove them as by the answer bellow  https   stackoverflow com a 26207308 7668448  Or by directly modifying  git config

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I was getting this problem intermittently  where most of the time it would not give the error message  The solution for me was to configure LDAP correctly after my LDAP server s IP address had changed   The  etc gitlab gitlab rb configuration for LDAP was pointing to a non-existent IP address  and so changing the host to point to the proper hostname for the LDAP server fixed the issue   To diagnose the issue  use the gitlab-ctl tail command to help you find stacktraces  For me  I found this stacktrace      gt   var log gitlab gitlab-rails production log  lt     Net  LDAP  Error  No route to host - connect 2  for 10 10 10 12 389      opt gitlab embedded lib ruby gems 2 3 0 gems net-ldap-0 16 0 lib net ldap connection rb 72 in  open connection        Make the changes to the host value in  etc gitlab gitlab rb  gitlab rails  ldap servers     YAML load  lt  lt - EOS     main        label   My LDAP         this was an IP address        host   10 10 10 12       host   internal-ldap-server    this is the fix      port  389   After changing the config file above  be sure to reconfigure gitlab  gitlab-ctl reconfigure

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I had the same issue and after a while I saw I m under root user  with sudo -s   May this help for someone

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I had the same error   The solution was following  I ve corrected my url in  git config  Just copied that from HTTPS clone URL  That would be something like that   url   https   github com  your git name   your git app  git   It worked

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Make sure ssh-agent is running by executing the following command on your terminal   eval   ssh-agent -s    Source  Github documentation

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If you use Gitlab than you might need to log in and accept Gitlab new terms  before you try to pull or push

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If you are still getting the same error  please make sure that in the git settings- ssh tab- ssh client to use is set to openSSH

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I had the same problem   This error means that you have not specified your remote URL location upon which your code will push   You can set remote URL by 2  mainly  ways    Specify remote URL via executing command on Git Bash    Navigate to your project directory Open Git Bash Execute command     git remote set-url origin  lt https   abc xyz USERNAME REPOSITORY git gt    Mention remote URL direct in config file   Navigate to your project directory Move to  git folder Open config file in text editor Copy and paste below lines     remote  origin    url   https   abc xyz USERNAME REPOSITORY git  fetch    refs heads   refs remotes origin       For more detailed info visit this link

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I had a wrong ssh private key for Bitbucket along with the right one in ssh agent   Deleted all keys first   ssh-add -D   Then added just the right key   ssh-add    ssh id rsa

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You can specify the username that SSH should send to the remote system as part of your remote s URL   Put the username  followed by an    before the remote hostname   git remote set-url website abc     com path to repo

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I solved this issue by restarting the terminal  open a new window tab    So if you don t really want need to understand the underlying problem  test method is worth a try before digging deeper

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Actually I tried a lot of things to make it work on Win7  since changing the SSH exectun fron native to build-it and backwards and the same error  By chance  i change it to HTTPS in the   git config  file as    remote  origin           url   https   github com user name repository name git         fetch    refs heads   refs remotes origin     and it finally worked  So maybe it could work for you as well

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I would recommend to check all remotes you have configured with git remote -v If you had your repo configured to a remote that was deleted you will receive this error message   fatal  Could not read from remote repository  Please make sure you have the correct access rightsand the repository exists  Even when trying to push or pull to an other  existing  remote  So if you have a remote that was deleted  you can remove with git remote remove name-of-remote-to-remove and after that you can push or pull to your existing remotes without problems

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In my case I was using an ssh key with a password to authenticate with github  I hadn t set up pageant properly in Windows  only in cygwin    The missing steps were to point the git ssh environment variable to plink exe   Also  you need to get github com into the plink known hosts        plink github com    y     lt then ctrl-c gt    Hope this helps   I sure wish intellij would have given me a more useful error  or better yet asked me to type in the ssh key password

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Try removing the GIT SSH environment variable with unset GIT SSH   This was the cause of my problem

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According to my experience  one of the reasons this problem occured is because you have an unstable internet connection

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When using putty pageant  make sure you did not forget to add the correct SSH key to pageant  else this error shows up  DUH

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I had the same issue and resolved by updating to the latest git version

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I solved this problem by switching to root with sudo su

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In your  git config file    remote  YOUR APP NAME       url   git heroku com YOUR APP NAME git     fetch    refs heads   refs remotes YOUR APP NAME     And simply  git push YOUR APP NAME master master

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For my case  I am using Corporate network  without internet connection  in office  In order to pull code from github  I set https proxy in gitbash and then use https instead of ssh to pull code it works fine  However when comes to push code  the https proxy won t work  So either switch to Internet network  with internet connection  or set ssh proxy can solve the problem

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For those having this problem on a private remote repo  make sure you have accepted the Xcode agreement on the remote server  it took we weeks to find out this fix  Use this command from the command line   sudo xcodebuild -license

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I encounter this issue by enter many times error password    so I have to change the MaxAuthTries to a bigger number   open the sshd config in server end   vim   etc ssh sshd config   change the MaxAuthTries number   MaxAuthTries 100      there I change to 100  you can change to a bigger than your current tries number

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You need to use HTTPS for Git   Type this into the Terminal     git remote set-url origin abc     com path to httpURLRepo   Then commit     git add     git commit -m  This is the commit message

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run into this because I am in China with Great Firewall         kex exchange identification  Connection closed by remote host fatal    Could not read from remote repository       Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository   exists

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I also met the same question after a lot of try I found they were invalid   finally I used   git push origin master  it worked

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I had the same error  which brought me to this answer that didn t help me  I was trying to create a new  bare  repository for the first time using the commands below to track to an NTFS location   cd myrepository git init --bare   myserver mycompany local myrepository git git init git status git add   git status git commit -m  Initial Commit  git remote add origin   myserver mycompany local myrepository git git push -u origin master git status   My problem turned out to be using the back slashes instead of forward slashes in the NTFS location when trying to add origin to set the  new  tracked upstream branch   I had to remove the origin using   git remote rm origin   Then add the origin again using the expected forward slashes  git remote add origin   myserver mycompany local myrepository git   Hope this helps someone in the future

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updated OCT 2020 In most of the case when you have more than one user access the same git server from a same client system  that time git server confused to with access key with the user both users allowed but when you fire command that time its used default  user  ssh -T git gitlab com  see which user are activatly you try to push with that user the simple solution removes the unused user public key from the git server  then try to git fetch or pull  push it will work for me

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Go to MINGW32 terminal put this Command   git branch --set-upstream-to origin  branch Name

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i just wanted to share that i found a easy fix for that   Access denied  fatal  Could not read from remote repository  Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists   just logout from gitlab and login again  The problems should then be fixed

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I had this problem using gitbash on windows 10  I tried several things to solve this problem  the major ones being these    Recreated my ssh keys and updated to bitbucket  Didn t help Turned on debugging using this and found out that I was getting  shell request failed on channel 0  as asked here  Rebooted my windows PC   None of the above helped  I ended up re-installing Git for windows This took only a few minutes as compared to other things I did and it solved the problem

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I had a perfectly fine working git and suddenly I got that error when I tried to push to the master  As I found out  it was because the repository host had problems   If you using GitHub or Bitbucket you can easily check the status at  https   status github com messages or https   status bitbucket org

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In my case it was the postBuffer    git config --global http postBuffer 524288000   For reference read  https   gist github com marcusoftnet 1177936

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Sometimes you need to use full URL with ssh    scheme   ssh   git yourhost port path repo git   or with specified port   ssh   git yourhost port path repo git   For me it solved the problem

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Your ssh key most likely had been removed from ssh agent ssh-add    ssh id rsa  where id rsa is a ssh key associated with git repo Update You may get Could not open a connection to your authentication agent  error to resolve that you need to start the agent first by  eval  ssh-agent -s

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I was facing same issue a while ago      my  git config had   url   git github com manishnakar polymer-demo git   I replaced it with   url   https   github com manishnakar polymer-demo git    and it works now

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Make sure you have correct url in  git config  url   git github com username repo git   If it s your first push  you ll need to set up correct upstream    git push -u origin master   You can check which key is used by     ssh -vvv git github com   The reply should contain something like this   debug1  Next authentication method  publickey debug1  Offering RSA public key     ssh id rsa     You ve successfully authenticated  but GitHub does not provide shell access    Also it s possible to define rules for ssh in    ssh config  e g  based on aliases      Host github       HostName github com        User git       IdentityFile     ssh id rsa      Host git       HostName github com        User git       IdentityFile     ssh some other id    You can set connect to different ports  use different username etc  for each alias

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After doing some research I ve finally got solution for this  you have declared a environment variable to plink exe path  So if you remove that path  reopen the git bash and try cloning through SSH it will work   Refer to this link  http   sourceforge net p forge site-support 2959  204c

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I meet the problem just now and fix it by   git config user email  quot youremail quot    update  The root cause maybe my poor network and poor proxy  I still don t know why it happened  but every time has this error  this command works

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user server  etc nginx  cat  git config       remote  origin       url   git gitlab com user  git     fetch    refs heads   refs remotes origin            Use ssh instead of https  To use ssh key in git  add ssh key   If you are root  use the ssh key        sudo ssh-keygen   cat  root  ssh id rsa pub     git init   git add file   git commit -m  add first file    git remote add origin git gitlab com user example git    git push -u origin master

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In my case  I was trying to clone with sudo  As per Github s doc  you shouldn t use sudo with git clone  https   help github com en github authenticating-to-github error-permission-denied-publickey should-the-sudo-command-be-used-with-git  What I did is give the currrent user permission to edit the directory  Debian 9    chown myuser root     Then cloned without sudo and it worked

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I was getting this error while trying to push code to my personal git from work - defaults point to work git   So I followed these steps    Went to my personal git account and created repo with default settings On terminal  git remote add origin git github com   git git push --set-upstream origin master  ensuring that origin is upstream and the next commits can be made using git push only    For some reason  no other way worked for me  Hope this helps someone working with 2 or more git accounts

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