“git@github.com: Permission denied (publickey)” when installing the dependencies from xero-python-oauth2-starter-master

Question

I am trying to use xero-python-oauth2-starter-master but I cant get past the first step. I am on Windows and i have installed python 3,8. Visual Studio Code (I also tried this with the Anaconda suit) and latest Git.

When i try to run the dependencies on requirments.txt I get the error Permission denied . Please see below This is from using Windows PowerShell (also tried from cmd, Anaconda PowerShell and Anaconda CMD)

PS C:\Users\m.*\OneDrive\Python\xero-python-oauth2-starter-master> pip install -r requirements.txt
Collecting flask
  Using cached Flask-1.1.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl (94 kB)
Collecting Flask-Session
  Cloning https://github.com/SqrtMinusOne/flask-session.git (to revision 560d00f1a84a9924d788a4f4e1ef35c5cf94c76d) to c:\users\m.*\appdata\local\temp\pip-install-d803d7fn\flask-session
  Running command git clone -q https://github.com/SqrtMinusOne/flask-session.git 'C:\Users\m.*\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-d803d7fn\Flask-Session'
  Running command git checkout -q 560d00f1a84a9924d788a4f4e1ef35c5cf94c76d
  Running command git submodule update --init --recursive -q
  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.
  fatal: clone of 'git@github.com:mitsuhiko/flask-sphinx-themes.git' into submodule path 'C:/Users/m.*/AppData/Local/Temp/pip-install-d803d7fn/Flask-Session/docs/_themes' failed
  Failed to clone 'docs/_themes'. Retry scheduled
  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.
  fatal: clone of 'git@github.com:mitsuhiko/flask-sphinx-themes.git' into submodule path 'C:/Users/m.*/AppData/Local/Temp/pip-install-d803d7fn/Flask-Session/docs/_themes' failed
  Failed to clone 'docs/_themes' a second time, aborting
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: git submodule update --init --recursive -q Check the logs for full command output.
WARNING: You are using pip version 20.1.1; however, version 20.2.1 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the 'c:\users\m.*\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\python.exe -m pip install --upgrade pip' command.

Contents of requirments.txt

flask
# Werkzeug<1.0  # flask-session not compatible
# see https://github.com/fengsp/flask-session/pull/114
# using patched version of flask-session
git+https://github.com/SqrtMinusOne/flask-session.git@560d00f1a84a9924d788a4f4e1ef35c5cf94c76d#egg=Flask-Session
# Werkzeug<1.0  # flask-oauthlib not compatible
# using patched version of flask-oauthlib
git+https://github.com/ageis/flask-oauthlib.git@c5ea3ace957ceeeeab3cfb6556f32685ff292eab#egg=Flask-OAuthlib

# Use development version of xero-python
#git+ssh://git@github.com/xero-github/xero-python.git@020f780b4e2b48cb33746ae19ddab9fdf128e626#egg=xero-python
xero-python==0.5.1

Answer 1

Try git config url.<URL>.insteadOf :

git config --global url."https://".insteadOf "git@"
git config --global url."https://".insteadOf "ssh://git@"

This way every git@ and ssh://git@ will be replaced with https:// .

Upd

git config --global url."https://github.com/".insteadOf "git@github.com:"

git config --global url."https://github.com/mitsuhiko/flask-sphinx-themes.git".insteadOf "git@github.com:mitsuhiko/flask-sphinx-themes.git"

Answer 2

Pretty sure you can resolve this by setting up your SSH keys for your github profile.

Please check that your SSH keys are setup for your github profile? https://github.com/settings/keys

We ran into some issues with the current version of Flask-Session and had to point to a specific commit and download that code into our project. But in order to do that your SSH keys need to be config.

https://docs.github.com/en/github/authenticating-to-github/connecting-to-github-with-ssh