Github permission denied ssh add agent has no identities

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This is my first time accessing GitHub and I m not experienced using a console  I am on a MacBook using Bash  When I try to access GitHub  I get this   git clone git github com dhulihan league-of-legends-data-scraper git Cloning into  league-of-legends-data-scraper     Permission denied  publickey   fatal  Could not read from remote repository   Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists    I ve tried following the instructions on Github page about permission being denied   When I use ssh -vT git github com  I get the following   OpenSSH 6 2p2  OSSLShim 0 9 8r 8 Dec 2011 debug1  Reading configuration data  etc ssh config debug1   etc ssh config line 20  Applying options for   debug1  Connecting to github com  192 30 252 129  port 22  debug1  Connection established  debug1  identity file  Users XXXX  ssh id rsa type -1 debug1  identity file  Users XXXX  ssh id rsa-cert type -1 debug1  identity file  Users XXXX  ssh id dsa type -1 debug1  identity file  Users XXXX  ssh id dsa-cert type -1 debug1  Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2 0 debug1  Local version string SSH-2 0-OpenSSH 6 2 debug1  Remote protocol version 2 0  remote software version libssh-0 6 0 debug1  no match  libssh-0 6 0 debug1  SSH2 MSG KEXINIT sent debug1  SSH2 MSG KEXINIT received debug1  kex  server- gt client aes128-ctr hmac-sha1 none debug1  kex  client- gt server aes128-ctr hmac-sha1 none debug1  sending SSH2 MSG KEXDH INIT debug1  expecting SSH2 MSG KEXDH REPLY debug1  Server host key  RSA 16 27 ac a5 76 28 2d 36 63 1b 56 4d eb df a6 48 debug1  Host  github com  is known and matches the RSA host key  debug1  Found key in  Users XXXX  ssh known hosts 1 debug1  ssh rsa verify  signature correct debug1  SSH2 MSG NEWKEYS sent debug1  expecting SSH2 MSG NEWKEYS debug1  SSH2 MSG NEWKEYS received debug1  Roaming not allowed by server debug1  SSH2 MSG SERVICE REQUEST sent debug1  SSH2 MSG SERVICE ACCEPT received debug1  Authentications that can continue  publickey debug1  Next authentication method  publickey debug1  Trying private key   Users XXXX  ssh id rsa debug1  Trying private key   Users XXXX  ssh id dsa debug1  No more authentication methods to try  Permission denied  publickey     Next  eval    ssh-agent -s   returns  Agent pid 2314   however ssh-add -l returns  The agent has no identities    And that is where I am stuck

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I have been stucked a while on the same problem, which I eventually resolved.

My problem: I could not execute any push. I could check & see my remote (using git remote -v), but when I executed git push origin master, it returned : Permission denied (publickey). fatal: Could not read from remote repository. and so.

How I solved it :

I generated a key using ssh-keygen -t rsa. Entering a name for the key file (when asked) was useless.
I could then add the key (to git): ssh-add /Users/federico/.ssh/id_rsa , which successfully returned Identity added: /Users/myname/.ssh/id_rsa (/Users/myname/.ssh/id_rsa)
I added the SSH key to github using this help page.
Having tried all the commands in Github's 'Permission denied publickey' help page, only the ssh-add -l command worked / seemed useful (after having ran the previous steps), it successfully returned my key. The last step shows you where to check your public key on your GitHub page. And this command will help you check all your keys : ls -al ~/.ssh.

Then the push command eventually worked !

I hope this will help ! Best luck to all.

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first of all you need to go in your ssh directory for this type following command in your terminal in mac or whatever you use in window      cd    ssh   now it is in the ssh here you can find all you ssh key files related to your all projects  now  type the following command to show you if any ssh key available      ls   this will show you all available ssh  in my case there were two now  you will need to start an agent to add a ssh in it  For this type following command      eval    ssh-agent -s     now last but not least you will add a ssh in this agent type following command      ssh-add    ssh your-ssh   replace      replace your-ssh with your ssh file name which you got a list form second step ls command

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This worked for me  chmod 700  ssh   chmod 600  ssh id rsa   chmod 644  ssh id rsa pub  Then  type this  ssh-add    ssh id rsa

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One additional element that I realized is that typically  ssh folder is created in your root folder in Mac OS X  Users   If you try to use ssh -vT git github com from another folder it will give you an error even if you had added the correct key   You need to add the key again  ssh-add  correct path to id rsa   from the current folder to authenticate successfully  assuming that you have already uploaded the key to your profile in Git

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Steps for BitBucket   if you dont want to generate new key  SKIP ssh-keygen  ssh-keygen -t rsa    Copy the public key to clipboard   clip  lt     ssh id rsa pub   Login to Bit Bucket  Go to View Profile -  Settings -  SSH Keys  In Security tab  Click Add Key   Paste the key in the box  add a descriptive title  Go back to Git Bash    ssh-add -l   You should get     2048 SHA256 5zabdekjjjaalajafjLIa3Gl k832A  c Users username  ssh id rsa  RSA    Now  git pull should work

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After struggling for long I was finally able to resolve this issue on Windows  For me the User env variable GIT SSH was set to point to       C  Program Files x86  WinScp PuTTY plink exe    which was installed along with WinScp  I changed the pointing to use default ssh exe which comes with git-scm  C  Program Files Git usr bin ssh exe

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This could cause for any new terminal  the agent id is different  You need to add the Private key for the agent    ssh-add  lt path to your private key gt

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Run the following commands   ssh-keygen -t rsa ssh-add  Users  yourUserNameHere   ssh id rsa    pbcopy  lt     ssh id rsa pub     Go to your Github account   https   github com settings profile  1  Click   SSH and GPG keys  2  New SSH Key and Past it there  3  Add SSH Key   Done

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For my mac Big Sur  with gist from answers above  following steps work for me    ssh-keygen -q -t rsa -N  password  -f    ssh id rsa   ssh-add    ssh id rsa  And added ssh public key to git hub by following instruction  https   docs github com en github authenticating-to-github adding-a-new-ssh-key-to-your-github-account If all gone well  you should be able to get the following result    ssh -T git github com Hi user name  You ve successfully authenticated

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try this   ssh-add    ssh id rsa   worked for me

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I had this issue after restoring a hard drive from a backup    My problem   I could check  amp  see my remote  using git remote -v   but when I executed git push origin master  it returned   Permission denied  publickey   fatal  Could not read from remote repository    I already had an SSH folder and SSH keys  and adding them via Terminal  ssh-add  path to my-ssh-folder id rsa  successfully added my identity  but I still couldn t push and still got the same error   Generating a new key was a bad idea for me  because it was tied to other very secure permissions on AWS   It turned out the link between the key and my Github profile had broken   Solution   Re-adding the key to Github in Profile   Settings   SSH and GPG keys resolved the issue    Also  My account had 2-factor authentication set up  When this is the case  if Terminal requests credentials  use your username - but NOT your Github password   For 2-factor authentication  you need to use your authentication code  for me  this was generated by Authy on my phone  and I had to copy it into Terminal for the pw

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THE 2019 ANSWER for macOS Sierra  amp  High Sierra  amp  Catalina    PS  most of the other answers will have you to create a new ssh key     but you don t need to do that      As described in detail on https   openradar appspot com 27348363  macOS OS X till Yosemite used to remember SSH keys added by command ssh-add -K  lt key gt   So here are the 4 steps i had to take in order for it to work    1  ssh-add    ssh PATH TO YOUR SSH PRIVATE KEY  e g     ssh id rsa   2  Add the following in    ssh config  Host      AddKeysToAgent yes   UseKeychain yes   IdentityFile PATH TO YOUR SSH PRIVATE KEY  e g     ssh id rsa    3  make sure to remove any gitconfig entry that use osxkeychain helper    https   github com gregory dotfiles commit e38000527fb1a82b577f2dcf685aeefd3b78a609 diff-6cb0f77b38346e0fed47293bdc6430c6L48   4  restart your terminal for it to take effect

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Full details in this answer    In summary  when ssh-add -l returns    The agent has no identities     it means that keys used by ssh  stored in files such as    ssh id rsa     ssh id dsa  etc   are either missing  they are not known to ssh-agent  which is the authentication agent  or that their permissions are set incorrectly  for example  world  writable    If your keys are missing or if you have not generated any  use ssh-keygen -t rsa  then ssh-add to add them   If keys exist but are not known to ssh-agent  like if they are in a non-standard folder   use ssh-add  path to my-non-standard-ssh-folder id rsa to add  them   See this answer if you are having trouble with ssh-add or  ssh-agent

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