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

[Chuck]

I have an individual bitbucket account and am a member of a team on bitbucket.

Recently I created a new bitbucket repository on my individual account and pushed code from a local repository into it. I then transfered that repository from my individual account to my team account, and I accepted the transfer on behalf of my team.

After making some changes on my local code base i tried to push those changes to origin with a git push and received the following error message:

nw-client (master)]$ git push
fatal: https://[myname]@bitbucket.org/[myname]/nw-html-client.git/info/refs?service=git-receive-pack not found: did you run git update-server-info on the server?

I realized at that point that I needed to update my origin's URL, so I typed the following git command into the terminal:

git remote set-url origin git@bitbucket.org:[myteamname]/nw-html-client.git

But,

git ls-remote

returns

[nw-client (master)]$ git ls-remote
Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

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

My git.config file looks like this:

[core]
	repositoryformatversion = 0
	filemode = true
	bare = false
	logallrefupdates = true
	ignorecase = true
	precomposeunicode = false
[remote "origin"]
	url = git@bitbucket.[myteamname]/nw-html-client.git
	fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
[branch "master"]
	remote = origin
	merge = refs/heads/master

What am I doing wrong? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[rsperafico · Accepted solution]

Hi Chuck,

Thank you for your question.

It seems you had your repository under the HTTPS protocol and once you set the URL origin your repository became to connect under the SSH protocol. Would be possible to generate a key-pair, add the public key to your Bitbucket repository and the private key to your ssh and give it a try, please.

Kind regards,
Rafael

[Chuck]

That was it. Thanks!

[Helton Denis]

Thanks!

[theaiacademy]

Rafael,

I had the same issue and followed your suggestion. Looks like the initial issue was solved but now I'm not able to perform a push of my commit due to this error:

repository access denied. access via a deployment key is read-only.

fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

[rsperafico]

Hi @theaiacademy,

The first thing that comes to my mind relates to the SSH key used having 'Read' permissions and not 'Read/Write' permission.

Please, refer to SSH access keys for system use documentation for further information.

Kind regards,

Rafael

[theaiacademy]

Rafael,

for some reason I don't get the Read, Read/Write options shown on step 5 in the document you shared. 

Under myrepository/settings/access keys looks like I'm given only the option to add read-only keys:

I am the owner/admin of the repository I'm trying to commit to.

How can I enable the Read/Write option?

thanks

[rsperafico]

Hi @theaiacademy,

The screenshot you have provided suggests your repository is on Bitbucket Cloud (https://bitbucket.org).

The documentation mentioned (SSH access keys for system use) relates to Bitbucket Server instead.

Perhaps, go to your user account in Bitbucket Cloud and add SSH key from there instead (Cog icon >> Bitbucket settings >> Security >> SSH keys)

Kind regards,

Rafael

[theaiacademy]

Rafael, I followed your instructions but can't really say conclusively if it worked: when I tried to run the push command I got an error about the URL not found. I changed the type of repository from SSH to HTTPS in Sourcetree, which changed the URL. When I attempted the push again I was prompted with a window to enter the bitbucket credentials (due to the HTTPS method) and I was finally able to make the commit but I can't say if the the SSH keys configured in the server side had anything to do - probably not.

In any case the Add SSH keys window was also without Read/Write option.

Quick question: the SSH key set in the server section would be global for anything on the bitbucket account (as opposed to specific to the repository)?

thanks again for the help

Carmelo 

[antonagape]

@theaiacademy @rsperafico

 hey bro, i got some error with carmelo. I cant find the read n write option after follow this instruction: (Cog icon >> Bitbucket settings >> Security >> SSH keys)

[shubham_jaiswal]

Thanks

[Oudy1st]

@theaiacademy  I found that you should add it from Personal Setting > ssh keys 
which will allow your app to read/write any repo. (I use SourceTree.)

[Sergio Hernandez]

I had the same problem, but I solved when I changed remote url to HTTPS with this command:

git remote set-url origin <bitbucket_URL>

After that, I could push the content to the repository with this command:

git push -u origin --all

[Emeka Kalu-Ottah]

This helped me, thank you!

[gozpell]

this worked for me! 👌🏻 thank you 👍🏻 

[Terica Douglas]

I used Sergio's code including the "https://".

This is a great little switching tool! Thank you; the local repo is IN! 

[Nitesh Gour]

Thanks

[Jesus Melendez]

thanks

Five stars

Excelent solution

(enviroment Windows 10)

[Francis Roberto]

worked for me. thanks!

[andrei9669]

thank you, this worked like a charm :D

[Gabriel Guillamon]

Like!!

[Richard Williams]

That fixed it for me thanks

[Jan Nielsen]

If you have multiple SSH identities, you will likely need to setup an SSH config file to allow git+ssh to select the correct identify. 

[Greg Cadmes]

This worked for me, thank you.

[Busy]

You saved my life! It's works.

[Deleted user]

These answers pointed me in the right direction. I had a similar issue pushing after I cloned from my bb repo to a rasp pi and couldn't the push changes to origin master. I had already added my linux pi's ssh public key to the bb keys but still got fatal error. I changed git config to use https by using 

git remote set-url origin https://someusername@bitbucket.org/.../somerepo.git

and then could push as expected.

[Ntegeka]

This helped me too.Thanks

[Anil Prajapati]

Just change the url of your remote in your local git

`

git remote set-url origin git@bitbucket.org:[myteamname]/nw-html-client.git

`

And then force push all to remote

git push -u origin --all

[fastfeth]

In my case, the build machine had been misconfigured - the id_rsa and id_rsa.pub files were owned by root, so the local jenkins account could not read from the private key to authenticate!

The solution was to change ownership of these files to the local jenkins user:

$ sudo chown jenkins ~jenkins/.ssh/id_rsa ~jenkins/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

where "jenkins" is the name of the account our jenkins build manager uses to login and conduct a build.

[moyyappa]

ssh -agent -s

ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa 

[Mikael Sandberg]

Testing my ability to post under bitbucket questions

[Bryan Villafañe]

This is what it worked for me:

eval "$(ssh-agent -s)"   

[MD ABU TALHA]

you can delete all cached keys before

$ ssh-add -D

 Then, Again add your keys by,

$ ~/.ssh/id_rsa_your_key

Now you can push,pull. 
Everything will be okay now. :) 

[afsarpervez]

Nice! It works.

First I checked If I have existing SSH key from GIt Bash

I saw I have generated it already unconsciously :) as I am a newbie.

Then I run the SSH file in the background 

After that, I have copied the code and added to my git account from settings

Now I can push my files remotely 

[CTLarsen]

This was the fix that worked for me without needing to switch to HTTPS url:

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Bitbucket-questions/could-not-read-from-remote-repository/qaq-p/983015#M45418

[Drew Jaqua]

I followed the bit about 

git push -u origin --all

and noticed that -- even though it didn't work -- I was able to get a little bit more information about the problem. I pared down the possible causes until I knew that it had something to do with my feature branch's dependence on another branch. I was able to solve the problem with these two commands

git push -u origin independent_branch 
git push -u origin dependent_branch

I hope that helps someone else. 

[LannaVrevskaya]

Hello!

I am also unable to manage a remote repository.

The errors are:

fatal: protocol 'git clone https' is not supported

git -c filter.lfs.smudge= -c filter.lfs.required=false --no-optional-locks -c color.branch=false -c color.diff=false -c color.status=false -c diff.mnemonicprefix=false -c core.quotepath=false -c credential.helper=sourcetree clone it@bitbucket.org:LannaVrevskya/remotesourcetree.git /Users/lannavrevskya/remotesourcetree

Please make sure you have the correct access rights

and the repository exists.

Cloning into '/Users/lannavrevskya/remotesourcetree'...

it@bitbucket.org: Permission denied (publickey).

fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Will be glad to get a solution.

[aheikki]

Also remember to check if you have double SSH keys loaded in your agent. I had 2 valid SSH keys for bitbucket.org, but the another one was for completely different Bitbucket account.

I have MacOS and I use ~/.ssh/config file. Also debugging with "git -Tv -i path_to_my_key_file git@bitbucket.org" seemed to work fine, it even said it loaded the right key file succesfully. Only difference was the username.

ssh-add -D # Use this to remove all keys from agent

ssh-add ~/.ssh/my_specific_id_rsa # Only load the one you need

I have used to normally type in just:

ssh-add # WITHOUT specifying a key, it loaded the default "id_rsa" key and I then had 2 bitbucket keys loaded into agent

So heads up for everyone with multiple Bitbucket accounts. 

[Seamus Roche]

In my case, I was erroneously passing my user ID in my set-url command.  I updated and set remote by omitting the user ID from this command. This solved the issue for me:

git remote set-url origin git@bitbucket.org:myGitRepo.git

[Renetik]

The problem is that sourcetree is loading url of remote when you add it by that button with link git@github.com:rene-dohan/ but then it is failing with that git error

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

and you have to change it manually to https://rene-dohan@github.com/rene-dohan/ , its clear bug on side of sourcetree but I think they just didn't get it yet... 

PS:

1 - sure you have to modify links I posted to yours ;) haha

2- Anyway nice program for the price :)

[sjoerdo]

I also encountered a similar problem recently, I could load my remote repositories but not clone/pull/push etc. As has happened before this had to do with locally adding the ssh key to my ssh-agent. This is a problem I've run into more often on mac. I found this article very useful:

https://help.github.com/articles/generating-a-new-ssh-key-and-adding-it-to-the-ssh-agent/#adding-your-ssh-key-to-the-ssh-agent

[Peter Coxhead]

I encountered the same problem but it my public ssh key was registered.  It turned out to be simply a DNS issue.  Once the hostname resolved everything was happy.

[Giddy]

Could you provide more detail to this?

[Peter Coxhead]

I'm sorry I don't recall much more than that.  I may have changed which network interface I was using to connect to the network or perhaps the IT department moved the repo to a new machine / IP address (thought that's unlikely).