ssh clone not working with github

Question

I am new to Git and GitHub.

I created a new repository and tried to clone on my local machine.

It worked for https and git-readonly URLs. That is, the following worked fine:

• git clone https://github.com/npsabari/testrepo.git
• git clone git://github.com/npsabari/testrepo.git

But when I tried git clone [email protected]:npsabari/testrepo.git, it didn't work. It gave the following error message:

Cloning into 'testRepo'...
Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

And then I tried ssh [email protected], but I got the error:

"Permission denied (publickey)."

instead of the welcome message.

What should I do to fix this? What is the reason for the error?

Answer 1

As per GitHub help, the error you're getting is related to wrong SSH configuration. Please follow indications for setting up SSH for GitHub and check accordingly.

Answer 2

You can either follow the below document to add your key to ssh-agent https://help.github.com/en/articles/connecting-to-github-with-ssh

or you can run the following command to execute it temporarily

ssh-agent bash -c 'ssh-add ~/.ssh/github_rsa; git clone git://github.com/npsabari/testrepo.git'

Answer 3

The reason for the error is that you don't have your public key (~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub) uploaded to GitHub. Add it to your account(you may do this through the web panel provided by github) and it will work.