"ssh_exchange_identification: read: Connection reset by peer" error when trying to connect to remote repository on git

Question

I'm very new to github, I started using it about two weeks ago. Everything worked perfectly, I was able to push and pull from my remote repository. Today, however, when I tried to pull from it I got this error message:

ssh_exchange_identification: read: Connection reset by peer
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.

When I try to do anything that connects to my remote github repository (push, pull, fetch, etc), in fact, it gives me back the same error.

When I type in this command: "ssh -T git@github.com", I just get:

ssh_exchange_identification: read: Connection reset by peer

I didn't modify any settings in my repository or in my SSH keys or anything so I have no idea why it stopped working all of a sudden. What could be the problem?

Execute `ssh -vvv -T git@github.com`, it will show debug information about the connection. — Gonzalo Matheu, Feb 09 '19 at 23:35
@GonzaloMatheu, I executed it and it returned this (I'll split it into two comments because of the character limit): OpenSSH_7.7p1, OpenSSL 1.0.2p 14 Aug 2018 debug1: Reading configuration data /c/Users/b/.ssh/config debug1: /c/Users/b/.ssh/config line 2: Applying options for github.com debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config debug2: resolving "github.com" port 22 debug2: ssh_connect_direct: needpriv 0 debug1: Connecting to github.com [192.30.253.113] port 22. debug1: Connection established. debug1: identity file /c/Users/b/.ssh/id_rsa type 0 — forblaze13, Feb 09 '19 at 23:43
debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory debug1: identity file /c/Users/b/.ssh/id_rsa-cert type -1 debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_7.7 ssh_exchange_identification: read: Connection reset by peer — forblaze13, Feb 09 '19 at 23:44
This question might help -> https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/321968/trying-to-ssh-into-server-and-getting-key-load-public-no-such-file-or-directory — Gonzalo Matheu, Feb 09 '19 at 23:56
I didn't understand much from it, could you please explain the solution provided there? It seems it's for a different context than github. — forblaze13, Feb 10 '19 at 02:35
I have already answered here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/64100419/3437897 — Ghulam Akbar, Sep 28 '20 at 10:40

Kandy · Answer 1 · 2021-09-28T11:30:48.097

I had a similar issue recently, I'm not sure whether its exactly the same as I got the connected user by following command.

ssh -T git@gitlab.com

But when I try to push the code to remote repository I got same error.

kex_exchange_identification: read: Connection reset by peer
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.

After trying few solutions from the internet without success, I just tried git init and it worked for me. I hope this works only if the connection user has bound correctly.

Try it out Good Luck.. :)

dhaynamicoGrant · Answer 2 · 2021-04-22T02:51:55.267

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I also had this problem and I was able to fix it by restarting my internet connection.

I was so confused when git bash suddenly gave me that message. I did not do any alteration on my git repositories at all. Restarting my connection fixed it.

edited Apr 22 '21 at 02:51

answered Apr 22 '21 at 02:43

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Same here. Switched to mobile bec my fiber was down and got this error suddenly for no apparent reason. So, the problem wasn't git. – duduwe Oct 07 '22 at 10:05

score 9 · Answer 3 · edited Jul 17 '23 at 20:53

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Do git-init. It will reinitialize the connection

edited Jul 17 '23 at 20:53

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answered Jun 19 '20 at 04:56

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score 4 · Answer 4 · answered Jun 23 '20 at 18:54

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The same thing happened to me with Bitbucket today. I first tried git init as another reply suggested. No luck. Then simply enough, I just rebooted my PC and it all started working again.

answered Jun 23 '20 at 18:54

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I have been trying to push to git from terminal. Simply, closing and than reopening the terminal has solved the case. – ni8mr Mar 20 '22 at 08:16

score 3 · Answer 5 · answered Aug 19 '20 at 08:08

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I had the same thing and this worked for me:

git config http.sslVerify "false"

And then:

git remote rename origin old-origin

and then instead of using ssh (git@YOUR_GIT_REPO.git) used the https url and set that as origin:

git remote add origin https://YOUR_GIT_REPO.git

answered Aug 19 '20 at 08:08

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This really worked!! – Alexey Dec 24 '21 at 10:54
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sadly, for GitHub: `remote: Support for password authentication was removed on August 13, 2021.` – Muhammad Yasirroni Nov 17 '22 at 00:08
This helped behind a corporate proxy, thanks! – pscheiben Jul 04 '23 at 07:17

score 3 · Answer 6 · answered Jul 02 '22 at 07:30

I got this error today and wondered what had gone wrong. Rebooted. Still bad. Then I went to gitlab website and got a 503 Error indicating server unavailable. gitlab was doing major maintenance on their site and said would be down for two hours.

I'm just posting this in case others have this problem. In this case it was not a local problem but the remote git server. The git bash error message is quite cryptic. It said:

kex_exchange_identification: read: Connection reset by peer
Connection reset by 2606:4700:90:0:f22e:fbec:5bed:a9b9 port 22
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.

score 1 · Answer 7 · answered Jan 18 '22 at 14:42

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In my case was because the ssh port at /etc/ssh/ssh_config file was changed. Once I changed the port in /etc/ssh/ssh_config back to 22, I was able to connect to Gitlab.

answered Jan 18 '22 at 14:42

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Well, I was surprised this was never mentioned! in the answers! – om-ha Jan 24 '22 at 10:27
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Related: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5767850/git-on-custom-ssh-port – om-ha Jan 24 '22 at 10:28

score 1 · Answer 8 · answered Mar 29 '22 at 07:08

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The access point you are using might be blocking certain type of communication. I just faced the problem while using my university's wifi network and when I changed the connection to my mobile's service it worked just fine

answered Mar 29 '22 at 07:08

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No I do not have a question. I was suggesting that the person with problem should make sure that the internet network s\he is using is not blocking certain traffic protocols – Osama Heba Apr 01 '22 at 07:09
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In my case this did answer the question. The connection to the server over port 22 (I suspect) was being blocked by my company's VPN, so disabling the vpn did resolve the issue. – Kyle Aug 03 '22 at 14:25

score 1 · Answer 9 · answered Mar 02 '23 at 10:00

I have also faced this problem and I was unable to push anything to Github or even ssh into my Linux servers. After days of troubleshooting and researching, I realised it was to do with the internet connection I was connected to. When I connected to a different network (From a different provider), I was able to proceed normally with pushing to GitHub and SSH-ing to the Linux servers. Try to change your internet connection i.e to a different router/provider e.t.c and see if it also works for you.

Thanks! Didn't realize I had my wifi enabled and was having wifi issues. Disabled to use my landline and it instantly worked! — Snekse, May 26 '23 at 14:51

score 0 · Answer 10 · answered Sep 23 '20 at 05:37

I have resolved this error after a lot of struggle but I think its a dumb idea but it will work.

Go to your git projects and clone it by HTTP link in your system.
After you will get the git folder in your cloned project.
copy that git folder and replace it with your SSL error showing project.
then as usual git add. and so on .it will push normally.

Enjoy!

score 0 · Answer 11 · edited Mar 13 '23 at 09:13

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I also got same error. But after deleting .git file it works fine but somehow repeated again and again..

kex_exchange_identification: read: Connection reset by peer Connection reset by 13.234.210.38 port 22 fatal: Could not read from remote repository. Please make sure you have the correct access rights. and the repository exists.

edited Mar 13 '23 at 09:13

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answered Nov 24 '20 at 05:56

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same problem is here – satyendra singh Nov 29 '20 at 05:35

score 0 · Answer 12 · answered Nov 15 '21 at 10:34

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I was facing the problem because I got connected to one of the VPN

answered Nov 15 '21 at 10:34

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In my case for bitbucket, i have to turn on my VPN on my Mac OS, so this can be also bug from my VPN application. – Rhony Jun 03 '22 at 03:19
In my case this answered the question. The connection to the server over port 22 (I suspect) was being blocked by my company's VPN, so disabling the vpn resolved the issue – Kyle Aug 03 '22 at 14:25

score 0 · Answer 13 · answered Apr 04 '22 at 06:30

I had this issue because I had incorrectly added a new remote repo (called origin) to my local git repo copy. You can view all your remotes like so:

$ git remote -v
origin  git@my-host.com:1234/my-path/my-project.git (fetch)
origin  git@my-host.com:1234/my-path/my-project.git (push)

Notice how the protocol (ssh://) is missing. This was causing the error for me. So just delete the old remote repos:

$ git remote rm origin
$ git remote -v
# empty

Then add the correct remote repo (called origin):

$ git remote add origin ssh://git@my-host.com:1234/my-path/my-project.git
$ git remote -v
origin  ssh://git@my-host.com:1234/my-path/my-project.git (fetch)
origin  ssh://git@my-host.com:1234/my-path/my-project.git (push)

score 0 · Answer 14 · answered Jul 01 '22 at 12:17

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I had to flush dns to resove this problem.

On Windows or WSL, open a admin powershell and execute ipconfig /flushdns. Then reboot WSL with wsl.exe -t Ubuntu and maybe the whole PC.

answered Jul 01 '22 at 12:17

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score 0 · Answer 15 · answered Nov 17 '22 at 03:03

My case is same with @osama-heba in his answer.

The solution is to change port. If it is 22, try to change to 443 and vice-versa.

In ubuntu, change the port on:
```
sudo nano ~/.ssh/config
```

Try remove origin and add it again (here, I use GitHub for example),

git remote rm origin
git remote add origin git@github.com:USERNAME/REPONAME.git

To test and initilaize connection, you can push or pull from the remote. Alternatively in GitHub, use:
```
ssh -T git@github.com
```

score 0 · Answer 16 · answered Jan 17 '23 at 16:57

None of these worked for me: restart wifi card, git init. I did not try rebooting.

I only see this problem when using IDE like PyCharm, and only since a couple of months.

In my case I have about 20 git repos hosted in github. If I only update a small number of git repos, the problem does not occur.

A web search indicates github does not throttle git fetch, but maybe it's a recent change that hasn't been announced yet?

score -1 · Answer 17 · answered Jul 06 '20 at 06:37

This same problem also happened to me on my bitbucket repository, all I did was delete this repository and create another one with another name, and in locla I only modified the url of remote

git remote set-url origin git@bitbucket.org:USERNAME/REPOSITORY.git

To find out more about changing the URL of your repository, click on the link here : changing-a-remotes-url

score -1 · Answer 18 · answered Aug 31 '22 at 08:42

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On Ubuntu + VSCode Terminal and using Bitbucket:

Restarting didn't work.

Reinitialize the repo worked:

$ git init

answered Aug 31 '22 at 08:42

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