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I have created a private repo on github, I want to clone this (empty) repo to my local computer to push changes to.

I'm using MacOS Ventura 13.0.

I have created a keypair and I have uploaded the public key to Settings > SSH and GPG keys. I have added this key to the ssh-agent. When I test my SSH connection to GitHub, everything works as expected (I get the preferred output like my username and stuff).

When I try to clone the private repo, I get the following output:

user@my-mac <folder> % git clone git@github.com:<username>/<repo>.git
Cloning into '<folder>'...
git@github.com: Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

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

What could possibly be wrong? Should I add the SSH key to a specific repo (in deploy keys)?

Sam Leurs
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2 Answers2

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GitHub has a page for this error message: Permission denied (publickey)

Walking through the steps listed there probably will fix your problem.

Mathijs Vogelzang
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If you have MacOS Ventura, you must

  • (easy way) to forgot about RSA signatures using SHA-1 and use another stronger type, because

Starting with OpenSSH v8.8, RSA signatures using SHA-1 are disabled

  • (hard way) RSA signatures using SHA-1 can be re-enabled, if you can edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config and do some other tricks, as it was already outlined some tome ago
Lazy Badger
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