[bash] Github permission denied: ssh add agent has no identities

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 [email protected]: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 [email protected], 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->client aes128-ctr hmac-sha1 none
debug1: kex: client->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.

This question is related to bash github ssh permission-denied public-key

The answer is


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 < ~/.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


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 [email protected] 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)


This could cause for any new terminal, the agent id is different. You need to add the Private key for the agent

$ ssh-add <path to your private key>

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.


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 [email protected]
Hi user_name! You've successfully authenticated,...

THE 2019 ANSWER for macOS Sierra & High Sierra & 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 <key>

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.


I had this issue after restoring a hard drive from a backup.

My problem: 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.

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).


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


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.


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"


try this:

ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa

worked for me


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


Run the following commands:

ssh-keygen -t rsa
ssh-add /Users/*yourUserNameHere*/.ssh/id_rsa** 
pbcopy < ~/.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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