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

Another issue that can cause this behaviour is when you have a setup with 2 possible %HOME%-locations.

I'm using a PC where some of my documents are stored locally, and some of them are stored on a network drive. Some applications think C:\Users\\ is my %home%, others think that U:\ is the home.

Turns out ssh-keygen put my private key under C:\users\\, and that ssh -T and ssh -v also look there.

So everything seems to work fine, except that git clone, git push and others look for a key in U:\. Which fails, so I get the aforementioned error.

It took me an hour to find out, but in the end the solution was simple: I copied everything from C:\Users\\.ssh to U:\.ssh