git at git.freebsd.org: Permission denied (publickey)

[Philip Paeps]

On 2021-04-06 23:16:11 (+0800), Thierry Thomas wrote:
> Trying to push my first commit, I get this error:
>
> git at git.freebsd.org: Permission denied (publickey).
> fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
>
> Please make sure you have the correct access rights
> and the repository exists.
>
> Any clue?

For the archives: this happened to me when I had my .git/config pushurl 
configured as git.FreeBSD.org but my .ssh/config Host configured as 
*.freebsd.org.

Making the case in .git/config match the case in .ssh/config made the 
problem go away.

Subtle. :)

Philip


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Philip Paeps
Senior Reality Engineer
Alternative Enterprises