Cannot clone remote git repo via ssh

Question

New installed Windows 11，created key pair with ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "my@email.com" command and uploaded the content in id_rsa.pub file to the git server, then run git clone git@server:user/repo in windows terminal powershell , then I got the note of Permission denied .

• I have confirmed the public key I uploaded is correct, and the private key file can be correctly access from git bash , cygwin terminal and windows terminal powershell .

• I tried to delete the key pair and regenerate one then upload, which is helpless.

• I tried to change a git server including coding.net , gitee.com and github.com , and the reports are the same.(with Permission denied )

• I confirm that the remote git repo is existent.

• I confirm that I can correctly access the git repo via https and username-password authentication.

• I tried clone the repo on my mac or linux, and they are ok.

After I searched some posts on this site, I tried ssh -v git@gitee.com , then got the report below:

OpenSSH_for_Windows_8.1p1, LibreSSL 3.0.2
debug1: Connecting to gitee.com [212.64.62.183] port 22.
debug1: Connection established.
debug1: identity file C:\\Users\\ye/.ssh/id_rsa type 0
debug1: identity file C:\\Users\\ye/.ssh/id_rsa-cert type -1
debug1: identity file C:\\Users\\ye/.ssh/id_dsa type -1
debug1: identity file C:\\Users\\ye/.ssh/id_dsa-cert type -1
debug1: identity file C:\\Users\\ye/.ssh/id_ecdsa type -1
debug1: identity file C:\\Users\\ye/.ssh/id_ecdsa-cert type -1
debug1: identity file C:\\Users\\ye/.ssh/id_ed25519 type -1
debug1: identity file C:\\Users\\ye/.ssh/id_ed25519-cert type -1
debug1: identity file C:\\Users\\ye/.ssh/id_xmss type -1
debug1: identity file C:\\Users\\ye/.ssh/id_xmss-cert type -1
debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_for_Windows_8.1
debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version ssh-pilot-1.1.1
debug1: no match: ssh-pilot-1.1.1
debug1: Authenticating to gitee.com:22 as 'git'
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT received
debug1: kex: algorithm: curve25519-sha256@libssh.org
debug1: kex: host key algorithm: ssh-ed25519
debug1: kex: server->client cipher: chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com MAC: <implicit> compression: none
debug1: kex: client->server cipher: chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com MAC: <implicit> compression: none
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_ECDH_REPLY
debug1: Server host key: ssh-ed25519 SHA256:+ULzij2u99B9eWYFTw1Q4ErYG/aepHLbu96PAUCoV88
debug1: Host 'gitee.com' is known and matches the ED25519 host key.
debug1: Found key in C:\\Users\\ye/.ssh/known_hosts:1
debug1: rekey out after 134217728 blocks
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received
debug1: rekey in after 134217728 blocks
debug1: pubkey_prepare: ssh_get_authentication_socket: No such file or directory
debug1: Will attempt key: C:\\Users\\ye/.ssh/id_rsa RSA SHA256:vjf1QWcO+923/akAbAnZybgl+L9eJBDDTDtKyqvXdkA
debug1: Will attempt key: C:\\Users\\ye/.ssh/id_dsa
debug1: Will attempt key: C:\\Users\\ye/.ssh/id_ecdsa
debug1: Will attempt key: C:\\Users\\ye/.ssh/id_ed25519
debug1: Will attempt key: C:\\Users\\ye/.ssh/id_xmss
debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey
debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
debug1: Offering public key: C:\\Users\\ye/.ssh/id_rsa RSA SHA256:vjf1QWcO+923/akAbAnZybgl+L9eJBDDTDtKyqvXdkA
debug1: Server accepts key: C:\\Users\\ye/.ssh/id_rsa RSA SHA256:vjf1QWcO+923/akAbAnZybgl+L9eJBDDTDtKyqvXdkA
debug1: Authentication succeeded (publickey).
Authenticated to gitee.com ([212.64.62.183]:22).
debug1: channel 0: new [client-session]
debug1: Entering interactive session.
debug1: pledge: network
debug1: ENABLE_VIRTUAL_TERMINAL_INPUT is supported. Reading the VTSequence from console
debug1: ENABLE_VIRTUAL_TERMINAL_PROCESSING is supported. Console supports the ansi parsing
debug1: client_input_channel_req: channel 0 rtype exit-status reply 0
Hi Lagom! You've successfully authenticated, but GITEE.COM does not provide shell access.
debug1: channel 0: free: client-session, nchannels 1
Connection to gitee.com closed.
Transferred: sent 3084, received 1512 bytes, in 0.2 seconds
Bytes per second: sent 15886.8, received 7788.8
debug1: Exit status 0

It seems I have right to access the git server, but here is what I received after I rerun the git clone command.

PS D:\Workspace> git clone git@gitee.com:username/demo-repo.git
Cloning into 'demo'...
git@gitee.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 can I do to make it correct?

Answer 1

Hi username! You've successfully authenticated, but GITEE.COM does not provide shell access.

Your keydoes work for basic authentication, but you are still unable to clone username/demo-repo.git (assuming that " username " is the same one as in the Hi username! message)

As I mentioned before , you might need to create a ed25519 key instead:

cd %USERPROFILE%\.ssh
ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C  "xxxxx@xxxxx.com"  -P "" -f gitee

And a %USERPROFILE%\\.ssh\\config with

Host gitee
  Hostname gitee.com
  User git
  Identityfile ~/.ssh/gitee

Finally: git clone gitee:username/demo-repo.git (no git@gitee.com , just gitee )