GitHub: Permission denied (publickey). fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

Question

I have followed these instructions below to upload a project.

Global setup:

 Download and install Git
  git config --global user.name \"Your Name\"
         


        

Answer 1

For me the problem was the execution of clone via sudo.

If you clone to a directory where you have user permission ( /home/user/git) it will work fine.

(Explanation: Running a command as superuser will not work with the same public key as running a command as user. Therefore Github refused the connection.)

This solution requires a SSH key already to be set up: https://help.github.com/articles/generating-ssh-keys