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Typical Github download error when using freshly built server - How to fix!
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Github access via SSH keys

I quite often hit the following issue when building new servers and then trying to download repositiories from github.com

graham@leader01:~ $ git clone git@github.com:allthingsclowd/web_page_counter.git
Cloning into 'web_page_counter'...
Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.
graham@leader01:~ $

This is usually because the public key github tries to use ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub is not yet registered on github.com as an authorised ssh key.

Solution 1:

Copy you're existing github public/private keys to ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub & ~/.ssh/id_rsa. (Note: Private key should not traverse the internet)

Solution 2:

Register the new public key located at ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub to you github account (https://github.com/settings/ssh).

Solution 3:

Create a new key if this is your first time and you don't have an SSH key pair already and then jump back to sloution 2 above. ssh-keygen -t rsa

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