Git: Permission denied (publickey) fatal - Could not read from remote repository. while cloning Git repository

Question

I am unable to clone a Git repository, and getting this error:

krishna.soni@KRISHNACHANDRAS /c/Projects $ git clone http://stage.abc.com:10088/pqr
http://<         


        

Answer 1

In macOS / Linux (Ubuntu):

1. To Authenticate you need to add your public part of your SSH key pair to bitbucket from within your user settings: User Settings --> SSH keys

You will find the said public part in your ~/.ssh directory, usually id_rsa.pub . note the .pub part of the file name for Public. it will help you to generate one if you don't already have one

You are not done yet ...

2. You need to let your system know what key to use with which remote host, so add these lines to your ~/.ssh/config file

Host bitbucket.org
 IdentityFile ~/.ssh/PRIVATE_KEY_FILE_NAME

Where PRIVATE_KEY_FILE_NAME is the name of private part of your SSH key pair, if you haven't messed with it, usually its default name is : id_rsa in this case replace PRIVATE_KEY_FILE_NAME above with id_rsa(the private key DOES NOT have a .pub extension)