GitHub: Permission denied (publickey). fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
GitHub: Permission denied (publickey). fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
Question
I have followed these instructions below to upload a project.
Global setup:
Download and install Git
git config --global user.name "Your Name"
git config --global user.email [email protected]
Add your public key
Next steps:
mkdir tirengarfio
cd tirengarfio
git init
touch README
git add README
git commit -m 'first commit'
git remote add origin [email protected]:tirenga/tirenga.git
git push origin master
But I get this error:
Permission denied (publickey). fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
Accepted Answer
For me the problem was the execution of clone via sudo.
If you clone to a directory where you have user permission ( /home/user/git) it will work fine.
(Explanation: Running a command as superuser will not work with the same public key as running a command as user. Therefore Github refused the connection.)
This solution requires a SSH key already to be set up: https://help.github.com/articles/generating-ssh-keys
Popular Answer
I had to add my public key to github. https://help.github.com/articles/generating-ssh-keys
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Yes, It's a public key Problem. I'm a windows user,and the page below help me resolve this problem.
more precisely this link should be helpful
https://help.github.com/articles/error-permission-denied-publickey
after you created the RSA key pair, you must to add it to SSH using:
ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa
or wherever you created your rsa key pair.
Type the following command using your username and repository name:
git clone https://github.com/{user name}/{repo name}
in Ubuntu this works perfectly.
I got a solution after a long time in tutorials.
I followed the github tutorial on this link -> https://help.github.com/articles/error-permission-denied-publickey and I was able to connect in every step. But when I was trying to git push -u origin master I got this error:
Permission denied (publickey). fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
Please make sure you have the correct access rights
Thats how I`ve fixed it!! Go to the project directory using the Terminal and check it out
$git remote -v
You will get something like this:
origin ssh://[email protected]/yourGithubUserName/yourRepo.git (fetch)
origin ssh://[email protected]/yourGithubUserName/yourRepo.git (push)
If you are using anything different then [email protected], open the config file on git directory by typing the command:
vi .git/config
And configure the line
[remote "origin"]
url = ssh://[email protected]/yourGithubUserName/yourRepo.git
fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/
In my case, I had to setup the public key for another user, as I already had one for my main user. once I switched users and performed the commands in the link above I was able to perform the setup for my test server without a problem.