I have been setting up an instance of a server (Amazon EC2, Ubuntu 12.x), and have got stuck trying to clone my own private repo from git.
I've been looking at https://help.github.com/articles/generating-ssh-keys and https://help.github.com/articles/error-permission-denied-publickey for a while, but still no good.
I have generated a new ssh key pair on the remote machine with
ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "myemailaddress@myemail.com"
and set up my git config fine, and I have added the public key to my github account . The email address is the same as the one I use on my local machine's ssh key (I don't know if that matters).
After starting an ssh-agent and then doing ssh-add -l
, I get a fingerprint result that matches what is said in my github public key. ssh -T git@github.com
also tells me that I have successfully authenticated.
However, whenever I try
git clone https://github.com/dmonopoly/myprivateproject.git
or
git clone git@github.com:dmonopoly/myprivateproject.git
on the remote machine (which I have sshed into), I get this error:
fatal: could not create work tree dir 'myprivateproject'.: Permission denied
Ideas? I've handled the permission denied (public key)
before, but this seems different. Help appreciated.
fatal: could not create work tree dir 'myprivateproject'.: Permission denied ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
That has nothing at all to do with access to the repository. You are trying to clone it to a directory where you don't have write access. Check permissions on the machine running git clone
.
sudo in front of the command took care of it for me. Easier than tracing the folder needing a permission change.
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