Git 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 am getting this error -   D  Projects wamp www REPO  master  gt  git pull origin master Warning  Permanently added  github com 192 30 252 128   RSA  to the list of known hosts  ERROR  Repository not found  fatal  Could not read from remote repository   Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists    The output of git remote -v  D  Projects wamp www REPO  master  gt  git remote -v origin  git github com username repo git  fetch  origin  git github com username repo git  push    Final message of ssh -Tv git github com command -   Hi  My Username   You ve successfully authenticated  but GitHub does not provide shell access    How can I solve it

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This usually happens when you use two ssh keys to access two different GitHub account.

Follow these steps to fix this it look too long but trust me it won't take more than 5 minutes:

Step-1: Create two ssh key pairs:

ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "[email protected]"

Step-2: It will create two ssh keys here:

~/.ssh/id_rsa_account1
~/.ssh/id_rsa_account2

Step-3: Now we need to add these keys:

ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa_account2
ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa_account1

You can see the added keys list by using this command: ssh-add -l

You can remove old cached keys by this command: ssh-add -D

Step-4: Modify the ssh config

cd ~/.ssh/
touch config

subl -a config or code config or nano config

Step-5: Add this to config file:

#Github account1
Host github.com-account1
    HostName github.com
    User account1
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa_account1

#Github account2
Host github.com-account2
    HostName github.com
    User account2
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa_account2

Step-6: Update your .git/config file:

Step-6.1: Navigate to account1's project and update host:

[remote "origin"]
        url = [email protected]:account1/gfs.git

If you are invited by some other user in their git Repository. Then you need to update the host like this:

[remote "origin"]
            url = [email protected]:invitedByUserName/gfs.git

Step-6.2: Navigate to account2's project and update host:

[remote "origin"]
        url = [email protected]:account2/gfs.git

Step-7: Update user name and email for each repository separately if required this is not an amendatory step:

Navigate to account1 project and run these:

git config user.name "account1"
git config user.email "[email protected]"

Navigate to account2 project and run these:

git config user.name "account2"
git config user.email "[email protected]"

User · Answer

Try   git config --global credential helper cache   This command prevents git to ask username and password  not forever but with a default limit to 15 minutes   git config --global credential helper  cache --timeout 3600    This moves the default limit to 1 hour

User · Answer

Its not necessary to apply above solutions  I simply changed my internet  it was working fine with my home internet but after 3 to 4 hours my friend suggest me to connect with different internet then I did data package and connect my laptop with it  now it is working fine

User · Answer

This error can be because of no SSH key on the your local machine  Check the SSH key locally     cat    ssh id rsa pub   If above command do not give any output use below command to create ssh key Linux Mac      ssh-keygen    Now again run cat    ssh id rsa pub This is your SSH key  Copy and add this key to your SSH keys in on git  In gitlab bitbucket go to  profile settings - gt  SSH Keys - gt  add Key   and add the key

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I asked in the discussion    does ssh -T git github com ouput the same username  in Hi  My Username    as in the one used for the ssh url of your repo  git github com username repo git    Sorry It not showing same name  That means somehow the credentials have changed  One solution would be to at least copy  HOME   ssh id rsa pub in the SSH keys section of the right GitHub account The OP adds    I am working on private repo  So In git github com username repo git    I replied   If you were able to clone push to that repo whose username is not your own GitHub account  that must be because you had your previous public ssh key added as a contributor to that repo by the repo s owner  What next is to ask that same repo owner to add your current public ssh key  HOME   ssh id rsa pub to the repo contributor list  So check with the owner that you  meaning your public ssh key  are declared as a contributor

User · Answer

Sometimes that  copying the pub ssh key to github bitbucket  is not enough  particularly with Bitbucket  You also may need to  check if your ssh is using the identity you expect rather than messing up with git remote  Check if the agent is using the same identity you pasted on github bitbucket with ssh-add -l  If missing add it with  ssh-add    ssh id rsa my git identity   Further details  https   confluence atlassian com bitbucket configure-multiple-ssh-identities-for-gitbash-mac-osx-linux-271943168 html

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Maybe  as in my silly situation  you may somehow created the ssh key by directly typing   ssh-keygen   And so it is created with the local system user credentials so they don t match  use full command like this and recreate  ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C  your email example com

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This error happened to me too as the original repository creator had left the company  which meant their account was deleted from the github team   git remote set-url origin https   github com  lt user name gt   lt repo name gt  git  And then  git pull origin develop or whatever git command you wanted to execute should prompt you for a login and continue as normal

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ssh-add -D    Delete all identities  ssh-add    ssh your key  Edit 1 Since I get so many votes  I discovered some issue with this approach and that is that it will remove all your identities so you might have the same issue when you try to read from other repositories and you will need to to this step again for each project   but it might also not be the case for your project

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In my case updating GIT helps - I had version 2 23 and with installing version 2 26 2 windows 1 problem disapears   So if you are sure your SSH key is valid then  see  VonC answer      update GIT  update composer run composer clearcache   And it should be ok

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I got the very same errors too  In My case upgrading from Windows 7 to 8 messed up my settings  What helped was to regenerate the private and public SSH keys using PuTTYGen  and change the SSH tool in tortoisegit from SSH to Plink   I have shared the step by step steps also at http   techblog saurabhkumar com 2015 09 using-tortoisegit-on-windows-with html

User · Answer

change your ssh url by an http url for your remote  origin   use    gt  git remote set-url origin https   github com  lt user name gt   lt repo name gt  git   It will ask for your GitHub password on the git push

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Strangely I had this occur with a single repository out of  gt  20 repositories on my MacBook Pro  The solution was to upgrade git via homebrew  and everything strangely worked after it finished  brew install git  Hope this helps someone

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ssh is not right way   https is right way  not right way  git remote set-url origin git bitbucket org erhandemirciinstagram      right way  git remote set-url origin https   erhandemirciinstagram bitbucket org

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I had this issue and tried many things but still din t work  Eventually I decided to generate another SSH KEY and boom - it worked  Follow this article by github to guide you on how to generate your SSH KEY   Lastly don t forget to add it to your github settings  Click here for a guide on how to add your SSH KEY to your github account

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

User · Answer

This issue could be related with missing SSH key at Github or any other git server   In my case I had copied code to another computer and tried to git pull  It failed   So I had to generate a new SSH key on that machine and update profile on git server with additional SSH key

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For me none of the solutions here solved it  Frustrated  I restarted my Macbook s iTerm terminal  and voila  My github authorization started working again  Weird  but maybe iTerm has its own way of handling SSH authorizations or that my terminal session wasn t authorized somehow

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