How to solve Permission denied publickey error when using Git

Question

Hi Guys,

I'm using a Mac System. I just installed git and tried to clone one repository.

$ git clone git@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.git

But it is showing me the below error.

Initialized empty Git repository in `/Users/username/Documents/cakebook/.git/`
Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

If the user has not generated an ssh public/private key pair set before then this kind of error occurs.  You need to create an SSH key pair and set the key in GitHub. It will solve your error.