Getting permission denied (public key) on gitlab

Question

My problem is that I can\'t push or fetch from GitLab. However, I can clone (via HTTP or via SSH). I get this error when I try to push :

Permission de

Answer 1

In my case, it wasn't a gitlab problem, but a sshd configuration one. The ssh server didn't allow connection except for a list of users. The user git, the one connecting remotely to gitlab, wasn't in that list. So, check this before anything else.

You can check your ssh server configuration in /etc/ssh/sshd_config. If you have a line with the option AllowUsers, add git to it:

AllowUsers user1 user2 user3 git