Heroku 'Permission denied (publickey) fatal: Could not read from remote repository' woes

Question

I\'ve searched around for many hours on end looking to a solution to my seemingly easy-to-fix problem. It\'s not that my search turned up nothing, it\'s that my search turne

Answer 1

I had a similar heroku ssh error that I could not resolve.

As a workaround, I used the new heroku http-git feature (http transport for "heroku" remote instead of ssh). Details here: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/http-git

(Short version: if you have a project already setup the standard way, run heroku git:remote --http-init to change "heroku" remote to http.)

A good quick work around if you don't have time to fix/troubleshoot an ssh issue.

Answer 2

My way on Windows 8

1. Add a directory with ssh-keygen to the system PATH variable, usually C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin

2. Open CMD, go to C:\Users\Me\

3. Generate SSH key ssh-keygen -t rsa

   Enter file in which to save the key (//.ssh/id_rsa): .ssh/id_rsa (change a default incorrect path to .ssh/somegoodname_rsa)

4. Add the key to Heroku heroku keys:add

   Select a created key from a list

5. Go to your app directory, write some beautiful code

6. Init a git repo git init git add . git commit -m 'chore(release): v0.0.1

7. Create Heroku application heroku create

8. Deploy your app git push heroku master

9. Open your app heroku open

Answer 3

I'd like to add another solution since I didn't see it here. My problem was that heroku was linking to the wrong url (since I kept playing around with url names). Editing the remote url solved my problem:

git remote set-url heroku <heroku-url-here>

Answer 4

SO So So simple solution , go to c:/Users/user_name/.ssh/ and delete all pub / private key pairs , this way heroku will generate keys for you.

Answer 5

you need to create a new ssh key by typing the following - ssh-keygen -t rsa

Then you need to add: - heroku keys:add

Then if you type - heroku open

The problem has been solved.

It worked for me anyway, you could give it a try...

Answer 6

I got the same error, and because I have 4 ssh-keys, so I tried follow:

ssh-keygen -t rsa
heroku keys:add

then, four options show:

1) github_rsa.pub
2) id_boot2docker.pub
3) id_rsa.pub
4) sshkey.pub

I choose 3), the newest one

Then, I fix the error.