GitHub: Permission denied (publickey). fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly while cloning directory from GitHub

Question

I am trying to clone directory of hipi from GitHub to my Ubuntu System using command 'git clone [email protected]:uvagfx/hipi.git' but it's showing an error as Cloning into 'hipi'... Permission denied (publickey). fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly. How to solve this error ?

Answer 1

If you clone to a directory where you have user permission ( /home/user/git) it will work fine.

Answer 2

You can use HTTPS version for cloning. That will require you Git Credentials instead of using ssh keys.

git clone https://github.com/uvagfx/hipi.git

Answer 3

Checked almost every option posted here .. but what I found useful is backing up database from cpanel and files from file manager and then restoring it .