public key issue

[Kumkum Tadeja]

While I'm doing a clone, push or pull over SSH with Git, I received a message

Permission denied.

Can anyone help me out?

[Soumyadeep Mandal · Accepted solution]

Hi @Kumkum Tadeja ,

Welcome to the community!

This can be caused by a couple of factors, but these are the most common:

- Your public key isn't loaded into Bitbucket Cloud

To check to see if your public key is loaded into Bitbucket Cloud, do the following:

1. Open a browser and log into Bitbucket Cloud.
2. Choose Your avatar > Bitbucket settings from the menu bar.
   
   The system displays the Account settings page.
3. Click SSH keys in the Security section.
   The SSH Keys page displays. It shows a list of any existing keys.
4. If you do not have any keys listed, follow Set up an SSH key to set one up.

- Your identity isn't loaded into your SSH Agent

If your SSH agent doesn't know to offer Bitbucket Cloud a key, the connection will fail. To find out what keys your SSH Agent currently is offering, and add them, do the following:

Windows

Double-click Pageant to view loaded keys (Pageant is a PuTTY authentication agent).

Click 'Add Key' to add any key not found in the list

On GitBash, OSX or Linux

$ ssh-add -l

Then, if you don't see your key listed, add it by 

ssh-add ~/.ssh/identity

For more information, check out our full Troubleshoot SSH issues guide.

- You do not have permission to create the repository on your local filesystem

If you get the error "Permission denied", it is also possible that git or mercurial doesn't have permission to create the project folder locally. Check permissions for the directory where you're attempting to check out the project, and make sure you have write access.

[Kumkum Tadeja]

Hey thanks it worked!