How to solve Permission denied (publickey) error when using Git?

Question

I\'m on Mac Snow Leopard and I just installed git.

I just tried

git clone git@thechaw.com:cakebook.git

but that gives

Answer 1

I had to copy my ssh keys to the root folder. Google Cloud Compute Engine running Ubuntu 18.04

sudo cp ~/.ssh/* /root/.ssh/

Answer 2

More extensive troubleshooting and even automated fixing can be done with:

ssh -vT git@github.com

Source: https://help.github.com/articles/error-permission-denied-publickey/

Answer 3

This works for me:

ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa

Answer 4

I have just experienced this issue while setting my current project, and none of the above solution works. so i tried looking what's really happening on the debug list using the command ssh -vT git@github.com. I notice that my private key filename is not on the list. so renaming the private key filename to 'id_rsa' do the job. hope this could help.

Answer 5

It worked for me.

Your public key is saved to the id_rsa.pub;file and is the key you upload to your account. You can save this key to the clipboard by running this:

pbcopy < ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

• copy the SSH key to the clipboard, return to the web portal.
• In the SSH Key field, paste your SSH key.
• In the Name field, provide a name for the key.
• save .

Answer 6

Note that (at least for some projects) you must have a github account with an ssh key.

Look at the keys listed in your authentication agent (ssh-add -l)
(if you don't see any, add one of your existing keys with ssh-add /path/to/your/key (eg: ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa))
(if you don't have any keys, first create one. See: http://rcsg-gsir.imsb-dsgi.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/documents/internet/node31.html or just google ssh-keygen)

To verify that you have a key associated with your github account:

Go to: https://github.com/settings/ssh

You should see at least one key with a hash key matching one of the hashes you saw when you typed ssh-add -l just a minute ago.

If you don't, add one, then try again.