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Ephraim Smith
Ephraim Smith
11,930 Points
Posted by Ephraim Smith
Ephraim Smith
11,930 Points

Permission Denied

I made it through the Intro to Git course and the majority of Git Basics course without issue. Now I am unable to push to my own repo and presented with the following message:

'git@github.com: Permission denied (publickey). fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists.'

I've deleted my cached Git creds in Keychain Access (I'm on a Mac) but that doesn't solve the problem. Out of things to Google on this one.

Thanks guys..

Garren Ijames
Garren Ijames
945 Points
Garren Ijames
Garren Ijames
945 Points

Hi Ephraim, do you have a public and private key generated? Somewhere inside of a hidden .ssh folder?

Ephraim Smith
Ephraim Smith
11,930 Points
Ephraim Smith
Ephraim Smith
11,930 Points

Hey Garren,

Thanks for replying. I have not set up keys. I did however change my username. That's why I cleared the GitHub credentials in the Keychain Access.

After posting last night, I re-established my remote using https and was asked for credentials. This seemed to work. Is there a way to prevent git auto-caching credentials?

Have a good day!

-E