fatal authentication failed for git clone

Fatal authentication failed for git clone verification#

SSH authentication does not have fine-grained repository permissions, so an accidental exposure of your SSH key could give someone access to all your repositories. The permissions of the GITHUB_TOKEN are usually limited to just one repository, following the security principle of least privilege. We recommend you use the default HTTPS and GITHUB_TOKEN in your codespace. GitHub Codespaces uses the HTTPS protocol by default, and authenticates with a GITHUB_TOKEN configured with read and write access to the repository from which you created the codespace. For example, you may have configured Git to use SSH by including lines like the following in a config file in your dotfiles. You may see these errors if you use a dotfiles repository with GitHub Codespaces, and you have configured Git to use a protocol other than HTTPS for transferring data to the remote repository.

Fatal authentication failed for git clone verification#

If you're trying to push to or pull from the repository from which you created the codespace, but authentication is failing, you may see an error like Permission denied (publickey) or Host key verification failed. Authenticating to the repository you created the codespace from

You may also get errors if you are trying to interact with a repository other than the one from which you created the codespace. However, occasionally you may see authentication errors when trying to run these operations. When you create a codespace for a repository, you can generally use git pull and git push to pull and push changes to that repository without any additional authentication.