git clone ssh permission denied

git clone ssh://github.com/username/repository.git is wrong. You should be doing:

git clone ssh://[email protected]/username/repository.git

or better yet:

git clone [email protected]:username/repository.git

If it is a public repository the whole keys thing can be avoided by using the git protocol with the fetch url.

git clone git://github.com/username/repository.git

This terribly nondescript error means that the server rejected your connection. Github has a very rich documentation this -

https://help.github.com/articles/error-permission-denied-publickey

Update -

Check if the keys and token are setup properly as per the instructions provided by GitHub. If I were you, start from scratch again. May be you haven't properly initialized SSH keys with Github -

cd ~/.ssh && ssh-keygen cat id_rsa.pub

and copy the key into the SSH settings of the Github website.

To clone a Git repository over SSH, you specify ssh:// URL like this:

$ git clone ssh://user@server/project.git

or you can use the shorter scp-like syntax for SSH protocol:

$ git clone user@server:project.git

Just wanted to make sure you're copying a correct SSH clone URL from your Github account -

--------- SOLUTION FOR WINDOWS USERS ------------------

Was facing the same problem in windows, solved as below:

after successfully setting up private/public key for git you need to naviagte to :

C:\Program Files\Git\etc\ssh

-- open ssh-config file present under it and add below information :

Host github.com
User git
IdentityFile << absolute path to your private key for git >>

-- restart power shell and try to clone repository again

 git clone  <<url copied from git repo>>