I am trying to migrate my software development environment to a new machine. My team uses GitHub as our code repository, and I access it via Git Extensions to do push, pull, etc.
On the new machine, I have copied the folders from the old machine containing all the code, including the .git folder (to save time not having to download everything again from the central repo).
I installed git, PuTTY, and Git Extensions on my new machine. I attempted to setup Git Extensions to work with the other two, but I'm having problems:
[email protected]: Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
I have Git Extensions setup to use OpenSSH. I have pageant started - maybe this isn't really needed?
To try to run this down, I opened a command prompt to use git directly. When I typed git pull, I received the same message:
[email protected]: Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists.
I looked at Troubleshooting SSH - GitHub Docs. This wasn't very helpful, because it listed things to check without saying what to do if something didn't check out. In spite of this, with the help of Generating a new SSH key and adding it to the ssh-agent...
- I found that OpenSSH was disabled for some reason, so I started it
- I found that my key files were unrecognized, so I generated new ones.
- I associated the new keys with GitHub, following their directions
After all this, I still got the same error..
When I type the command ssh -vT [email protected], I get this response:
OpenSSH_for_Windows_8.6p1, LibreSSL 3.4.3
debug1: Authenticator provider $SSH_SK_PROVIDER did not resolve; disabling
debug1: Connecting to github.com [140.82.112.4] port 22.
debug1: Connection established.
debug1: identity file ...
debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_for_Windows_8.6
debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version babeld-d815c248
debug1: compat_banner: no match: babeld-d815c248
debug1: Authenticating to github.com:22 as 'git'
debug1: load_hostkeys: fopen C:\Users\******/.ssh/known_hosts2: No such file or directory
I don't know whether to focus on the $SSH_SK_PROVIDER problem or the known_hosts2 problem. In either case, I don't know what to do next. I don't have an environment variable named SSH_SK_PROVIDER, and I don't have a file named known_hosts2 - it's just known_hosts. (I don't know why it's looking for known_hosts2.)
Can anyone help me sort this out???
As it turned out, I overlooked a step described in Adding a new SSH key to your GitHub account. I had to get a copy of the public key & add it to my GitHub account. Now it works.