By housniy
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.
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I observed the same issue : Below steps worked for me From Terminal - > Type ssh-add -l If the output is :The agent has no identities.
Enter: ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa
This command should add your keys to the local ssh-agent. Once it is been added , Try git clone <git@github.com__repo_path__>
I had SSH setup correctly and still got this error. The problem was not SSH, but simply folder permissions. The folder I was trying to clone into was owned by the root user (check this using ls -l), and using sudo is not valid when cloning a git repo. I had to change the folder to be owned by my user, like this: sudo chown -R $USER:$USER <path_to_folder>
I am experiencing this same issue and I have added my public key on Github.
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