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Jérôme Verstrynge
Jérôme Verstrynge

Reputation: 59576

Git Clone - fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

I am connecting from a Ubuntu laptop to a virtual machine via ssh.

Within this VM, I am trying to git clone a repository with:

/home/httpd$ sudo git clone [email protected]:NexwayGroup/softgallery
[sudo] password for jverstrynge: 
Cloning into 'softgallery'...
Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

I have seen this SO question and the solution suggests modifying the git config with:

/home/httpd$ git config http.postBuffer 524288000
error: could not lock config file .git/config: No such file or directory

But I am getting the above error. Anyone knows how to solve this one?

I have checked the connection using github instructions and it seems fine:

ssh -T [email protected]
Warning: Permanently added the RSA host key for IP address '192.30.252.129' to the list of known hosts.
Enter passphrase for key '/home/jverstrynge/.ssh/id_rsa': 
Hi JVerstry! You've successfully authenticated, but GitHub does not provide shell access.
jverstrynge@devjverstrynge:/home/httpd$

Upvotes: 3

Views: 4513

Answers (2)

Ashutosh Jindal
Ashutosh Jindal

Reputation: 18869

One possible solution would be to setup your git host in ~/.ssh/config of the root user and use the ssh key from your user which has the git public, private key. A bit hacky, but should work.

Thus, add the following to /root/.ssh/config:

Host github.com
  Hostname github.com
  User jverstrynge
  IdentityFile  /home/jverstrynge/.ssh/id_rsa

and then you should be able to do a sudo git clone [email protected]:NexwayGroup/softgallery since the sudo should cause root user's .ssh/config to be used

Upvotes: 1

Elias Holzmann
Elias Holzmann

Reputation: 3649

You are running

sudo git clone

sudo runs the command as root, but your root probably does not have your private SSH key. Therefore, the connection can't be established.

A solution would be to either run the git command as your normal user (without sudo) or, if sudo is really needed for some reason, add the SSH key for root, too.

Upvotes: 4

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