GitHub Error Message - Permission denied (publickey)

Question

Anybody seen this error and know what to do?

I\'m using the terminal, I\'m in the root, the GitHub repository exists and I don\'t know what to do now.

Answer 1

Once scenario where this will happen is when you follow GitHub instructions after you create your repository. Git will instruct you to add your remote with something like this.

git remote add origin git@github.com:/.git

Replace what's in <> with values related to your account.

The solution is to remove the .git suffix. Add the remote as follows:

git remote add origin git@github.com:/