Unable to clone Github repo via SSH protocol. HTTPS works.

Hi, I have a very basic droplet setup. No firewalls or any sort of security measures are set up. It’s virtually open.

I wanted to clone a git repo but had some issues. Let me illustrate with an example:

$ cd /var/www $ mkdir test $ cd test $ git clone git@github.com:housni/li3_uploadable.git

The above gives me:

Cloning into ‘li3_uploadable’… Permission denied (publickey). fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists.

‘li3_uploadable’ is a public repo. I know this because I own it. Besides, I have this issue with all the other Github repos.

However, I noticed that cloning via HTTPS works:

git clone https://github.com/housni/li3_uploadable.git

I asked Digitalocean support but they were unable to help me. Any ideas on what’s going on?

Thanks.