GitHub Error Message - Permission denied (publickey)

Question

Anybody seen this error and know what to do?

I\'m using the terminal, I\'m in the root, the GitHub repository exists and I don\'t know what to do now.

Answer 1

This happened to me. For some reason my origin got messed up without my realizing it:

Check if your settings are still correct

git remote -v

the url needs to be something like ssh://git@github.com/YourDirectory/YourProject.git; if you don't see git@github.com, use

git remote set-url origin git://github.com/YourDirectory/YourProject.git

to set it right. Or you could use the github app to check and set the Primary Remote Repository url in the settings panel of your particular repository.

Answer 2

tl;dr

in ~/.ssh/config put

PubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes=+ssh-dss

Scenario If you are using a version of openSSH > 7, like say on a touchbar MacBook Pro it is ssh -V
OpenSSH_7.4p1, LibreSSL 2.5.0

You also had an older Mac which originally had your key you put onto Github, it's possible that is using an id_dsa key. OpenSSH v7 doesn't put in by default the use of these DSA keys (which include this ssh-dss) , but you can still add it back by putting the following code into your ~/.ssh/config

PubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes=+ssh-dss

Source that worked for me is this Gentoo newsletter

Now you can at least use GitHub and then fix your keys to RSA.

Answer 3

Also in ubuntu, even though there was already SSH key entered in settings in BitBucket, I got this problem. The reason was, I was trying the following:

sudo git push origin master

Not sure why, but it got solved by using

git push origin master

No sudo used.

Answer 4

I think i have the best answer for you, your git apps read your id_rsa.pub in root user directory

/home/root/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

That's why your key in /home/your_username/.ssh/id_rsa.pub can't be read by git. So you need to create the key in /home/root/.ssh/

$ sudo su
$ ssh-keygen
$ cd ~/.ssh
$ cat id_rsa.pub

Then copy the key in your github account. It's worked for me. You can try it.

Answer 5

I would like to add some of my findings:

If you are using GitBash, then make sure the SSH key is stored in ~/.ssh/id_rsa.

By Default GitBash searches for ~/.ssh/id_rsaas default path for SSH key.

Even the file name id_rsa matters. If you save your SSH key in another filename or path, it will throw the Permission Denied(publickey)error.

Answer 6

Maybe your ssh-agent is not enable You can try it

1. Download git

http://git-scm.com/

1. Install it

2. Enable ssh-agent

C:\Program Files\Git\cmd

start-ssh-agent