SSH Public key denied on “git clone” command

Question

I am trying to clone a git repo that I forked in my GitHub Repository.It's a rails app. I want to clone it on my local git so that I can push it onto heroku. I generated a set of rsa keys and copied it onto my GitHUb public keys. When I try to git clone "public url" , It says public key denied. I tried an ssh git@github.com to verify my key, it also says public key denied. I've tried several different things to make it work but it still hasn't. I tried to change permissions to 600 and 700 on my .ssh folder. I also tried adding a dsa key because the rsa won't work. please help me. Thanks. :)

I'm on Vista btw.

Answer 1

Answering a very old thread, here, but I'm on Cygwin and just had to do this to start work with my newly created site on phpfog.com

First, I ran this in cygwin:

exec ssh-agent bash
ssh-add ~/.ssh/private-key-name

I then received:

Identity added: /home/scott/.ssh/private-key-name (/home/scott/.ssh/private-key-name)

Answer 2

Copy the public key on your computer i.e., ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub (open it with notepad)

Paste this key in the "Add SSH key" section in your github account.

Note: to generate a ssh key if doesnt already exist, use ssh-keygen -t rsa

Answer 3

Can you try adding the private key using ssh-add?

Answer 4

After a lot of googling, I found this answer. I had to start the bash engine before i can add the keys. I cloned my app from github to my local server as well.

Answer 5

If you are on Linux, you can try keychain tool to manage SSH agent.

Answer 6

Consider using ForwardAgent option.

Try add:

Host * 
    ForwardAgent yes

to /etc/ssh/ssh_config on local machine.

Answer 7

I had the same problem. Check the contents of your public key file:

1. it must start with ssh-rsa
2. it must be ONE line
3. the format is like this: ssh-rsa manysymbolshere== somekeyname

if you generated the key using puttygen in Windows - DO NOT save public key to a file on disk - it will have comments, which you must delete before copying to a server. Copy the public key to clipboard and then save to a *.pub file using notepad.

Answer 8

SSL certificate rejected trying to access GitHub over HTTPS behind firewall looks to be a very similar question. One solution I took from from those answers to quickly clone a git repository when I don't have the keys set up is to:

export GIT_SSL_NO_VERIFY=true

then clone away.