By drzeb
As I was following through the tutorial on the same topic (https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-automatic-deployment-with-git-with-a-vps), I successfully established a git repo at the vps, I even added remote live by git remote add live ssh://myuser@mydomain.com/var/repo/site.git I already have local git setup I regularly use git with my team.
But when I used the command git push live vps
The following happened
The authenticity of host 'mydomain.com (1xx.yy.www.zz3)' can't be established.
ECDSA key fingerprint is SHA256:yXzYFN698CZQgNHzb8jg4CQCIJBhzD34AFebkZ0/63Q.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
Warning: Permanently added 'mydomain.com,1xx.yy.www.zz3' (ECDSA) to the list of known hosts.
myuser@mydomain.com.com: Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.
I was kind of expecting it to come since there is no step I can see where I may put my private ssh key. Please note that I am using putty with ssh key to communicate with my server and using windows cmd to issue git commands
git remote add live ssh://myuser@mydomain.com/var/repo/site.git
and
git push live vps
from my local system.
Please let me know where I am missing something.
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Hello,
Just came across this question. You would need to add your public SSH key to the /home/myuser/.ssh/authorized_keys file.
Also, you need to make sure that the authorized_keys file has 600 permissions:
chmod 600 /home/myuser/.ssh/authorized_keys
chmod 700 /home/myuser/.ssh
And then if this is still happening, then you could try adding the -vvv flag when trying to connect via SSH.
This will give you some extra information on why the connection is failing.
Best, Bobby
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