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I am trying to clone a private repository in a vps (or droplet) with linux, I followed all the steps in the official docs and when I run the command ssh -T [email protected] I get the successful message: Hi username You've successfully authenticated, but GitHub does not provide shell access..

I also added the key to the agent with the command eval "$(ssh-agent -s)" and then ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_ed25519

But I still can't clone my private repository, when I try to run this command sudo git clone [email protected]:username/repository.git I get the following error:

[email protected]: Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

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

Of course I replaced username and repository with my username and repository name

I don't really understand what happens, I don't know why I get a permissions denied if I get a successful connection through ssh.

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    Why are you using sudo? Commented Jun 8, 2024 at 3:58
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    Don't use sudo for git clone (or any git operations). Your ssh key isn't available when using sudo. If you really need to for some reason, see this: stackoverflow.com/a/73709555/5774952 Commented Jun 8, 2024 at 3:58
  • Hi, thanks for asking. If i don't use sudo i get this error: fatal: could not create work tree dir 'repository': Permission denied Commented Jun 8, 2024 at 13:51
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    Then change to a directory where your logged in user has write-access ... or, if you had previously run the same command w/ sudo in a directory where you do have write access: sudo chown -R youruser repository ... Commented Jun 8, 2024 at 21:16
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    Meta: Please summarize the comments into an answer. Commented Jun 12, 2024 at 8:20
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