Sounds familiar?
git push origin master
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
Please make sure you have the correct access rights
When you work on multiple projects from the same machine, you often need to use a different SSH key per repository.
For example you may have two repositories:
- github.com/work/work-repo-1 [work SSH key]
- github.com/personal/personal-repo-1 [personal SSH key]
If you don't want to mess around with the global SSH config stored by default in ~/.ssh/config
, you can configure the local one, located as a hidden folder inside your cloned repository path.
Open the local repository's git config file:
cd $HOME/your-projects/github.com/work/work-repo-1
vim .git/config
You will see settings like:
[core]
repositoryformatversion = 0
filemode = true
bare = false
logallrefupdates = true
ignorecase = true
precomposeunicode = true
[remote "origin"]
url = git@github.com:web3coach/web.git
fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
Individualize the settings
Configure your user
Configure your user's name, email by modifying the user
group settings. This is important because this name and email will appear in your project's git commit history.
[user]
name = Lukas Lukac
email = lukas@web3.coach
Configure your auth permissions
Git uses SSH for permissions authentication. Specify what SSH key you want to use by defining the sshCommand
setting inside the core
group:
[core]
sshCommand = "ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa_web3coach"
All together:
[user]
name = Lukas Lukac
email = lukas@web3.coach
[core]
repositoryformatversion = 0
filemode = true
bare = false
logallrefupdates = true
ignorecase = true
precomposeunicode = true
sshCommand = "ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa_web3coach"
[remote "origin"]
url = git@github.com:web3coach/web.git
fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
Alternative
Prefix your git command with an ENV variable on the fly:
GIT_SSH_COMMAND='ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa_web3coach' git push origin master
Thank you for reading.
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Top comments (5)
super, thanks ! this helped me fixing a problem with push command
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