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