Permission denied (publickey). fatal: could not read from remote repository.

Question

Problem :

I am unable to clone my Git repository and getting below error:

​/c/Projects $ git clone http://stage.abc.com:10088/pqr http://<url>/<repository> Cloning into '<repository>'... fatal: could not read Username for 'http://<url>': No such file or directory



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How can I fix the above error?

Answer 1

It seems to me like the permissions issue and not the Windows 7 issue.

Your ssh key is not authorized so you are getting - Permission denied (publickey).

You need to create the public ssh key and then ask your administrator of your Git repository to add your ssh public key

OR

For the people those have come here and are just trying to get their repository and who don't care about the protocol name (ssh / https), those might just want to use the https instead of the ssh (if it's just supported).

So for e.g. you can use below command.

git clone https://github.com/%REPOSITORYFOLDER%/%REPOSITORYNAME%.git

Instead of the below command.

git clone git@github.com:%REPOSITORYFOLDER%/%REPOSITORYNAME%.git

 OR

 If you are still facing the issue around the access even after creating the SSH and adding it in the Bitbucket account or wherever you wanted to, you need to write the following in terminal on the GitBash, OSX or Linux:

# Lists already added identities (‘ssh keys’)

ssh-add -l

Then, if you still don't see your key listed then you can add it with the following

# Add a new realname

ssh-add ~/.ssh/ realname

This simply worked for me.