Help with "Permission denied (publickey). fatal: Could not read from remote repository."

Julius Bangert

I had everything working with the Sourcetree app and Bitbucket remote. A few days ago I could commit and push. Now, suddenly with no changes to the Sourcetree setup or remote setup I cannot push anymore.

Here is a screenshot of 'Pushing To Origin Full Output'. Can anyone suggest what to do?

jredmond

Sierra or High Sierra? This is a remarkably common problem that users of those two specific revisions of macOS have, due to changes in the OS's handling of SSH identities. I suspect that most of the "related content" linked here is this exact issue.

Go to the Terminal and run `ssh-add -l` - your key should be listed there. If it isn't, run `ssh-add /path/to/key` (using the actual path to the private key, of course) and try again.

For a more permanent fix, update your ~/.ssh/config file to include a Bitbucket-specific stanza:

Host bitbucket.org
    HostName bitbucket.org
    IdentityFile /path/to/key
    AddKeysToAgent yes
    UpdateHostKeys yes