Unable to clone repository from Gitlab: Permission denied, please try again

Question

I'm trying to clone an empty repository from my Gitlab account. I simply use the address shown on my Gitlab repository page under SSH:

[email protected]:USERNAME/project-name.git

Then simply try this in an empty folder, but it keeps telling me permission denided, asking for retry:

git clone [email protected]:USERNAME/project-name.git
Cloning into 'project-name'...
[email protected]'s password:
Permission denied, please try again.
[email protected]'s password:

and when I choose the https address for clone, this is the message:

remote: HTTP Basic: Access denied
fatal: Authentication failed for ....

I am able to login to Gitlab homepage with that password, so I don't know what is really wrong.

What is wrong? How to fix it?

Answer 1

ssh authentication on Gitlab requires a ssh key. You need to generate one, depending on your host, windows, linux or other. Then you need to add the key to your account.

You can find all the required information here: https://gitlab.com/help/ssh/README.md

If you want to use your http login you should switch to http authentication. At the left of the repository address there's a menu, you can choose ssh or http. Use the latter

Answer 2

As I'm in Windows, this answer was the life saver:

It happen every time I'm forced to change the Windows password and none of above answers helped to me.

Try below solution which works for me:

Go to Windows Credential Manager (press Windows Key and type credential) to edit the git entry under Windows Credentials. Replace old password with the new one.