cannot clone public repositories
bjamesvERT opened this issue · 4 comments
Script fails to clone public repositories, when no SSH keypair has been set up on GitHub.com
Error: Permission denied (publickey).
e.g.:
Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
2018-09-10 11:22:10.462167 :: cannot clone repository sumpis : git@github.com:nwfsc-fram/sumpis.git
From the error message it appears it was communicating for awhile with GitHub, so I suspect this was a denial of service due to too many requests from an anonymous user in a short period of time. If anonymous, GitHub greatly reduces the allowed frequency of requests.
it looks like cloning via SSH requires an SSH keypair
per https://help.github.com/articles/which-remote-url-should-i-use/#cloning-with-ssh-urls
Thank you for the fix. Continues to work fine with the SSH keypair. I will let you close this out as I don't have an easy way of checking that it is working without the SSH keypair.
Issue resolved in #5
(Checked the latest master revision on my system, and clone of public repos works great without an SSH keypair now)