Permission denied when trying git push

[Daiyue Weng]

Hi,

I have created a new repo on Bitbucket and created two branches, i.e. main and develop using the Web UI.

I initialised my local repo, added and committed the files I wanted to upload to the cloud repo and added remote origin, then tried to push the local changes to the remote repo. But I got the permission denied error and couldn't proceed.

git push -u origin develop

The authenticity of host 'bitbucket.org (185.166.141.9)' can't be established. 
ED25519 key fingerprint is SHA256:ybgmFkzwOSotHTHLJgHO0QN8L0xErw6vd0VhFA9m3SM. 
This key is not known by any other names 
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no/[fingerprint])? yes 
Warning: Permanently added 'bitbucket.org' (ED25519) to the list of known hosts. 

git@bitbucket.org: Permission denied (publickey). fatal: Could not read from remote repository. 

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

[Theodora Boudale]

Hi Daiyue,

Based on the error message, you are using SSH to interact with this repo.

I suggest checking the following two things:

1. Have you generated an SSH key pair on the computer you are pushing from? And have you added the public key to your SSH keys here https://bitbucket.org/account/settings/ssh-keys/?

2. If you have setup the SSH keys, and assuming that you use OpenSSH as a client, try adding the following lines in the ~/.ssh/config file on this computer:

Host bitbucket.org
  AddKeysToAgent yes
  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa

Please replace ~/.ssh/id_rsa with the path and name of the private SSH key, whose public key you have uploaded to Bitbucket, if different.

If the file config doesn't exist in the ~/.ssh/ directory, you can create it and add the content above. This will ensure that this specific SSH key will always be offered when you clone, pull, or push to a Bitbucket repo.

Please feel free to let me know how it goes and if you need further assistance.

Kind regards,
Theodora