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Why are people having this problem?

$ git clone --recursive [email protected]:acani/Chats.git Cloning into 'Chats'... Permission denied (publickey). fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists.

https://github.com/acani/Chats/issues/53#issuecomment-118014684

I've read some answers that say to change the submodule URL from SSH to HTTP, but why should I have to do that. I don't want to do that. I want to keep it SSH so that I don't have to enter my username & password into Terminal if I want to push. Everyone can clone the SSH URL fine, so why can't they recursively clone it as a submodule?

ma11hew28
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  • Possible duplicate: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25957125/git-submodule-permission-denied – Melebius Jul 02 '15 at 12:41
  • @ma1 Did I answered your question with the workaround I proposed below? – VonC Dec 18 '18 at 22:17
  • @VonC Sorry, I didn't try your workaround. I just switched from the SSH protocol to the Git protocol. Thank you for answering anyway though. – ma11hew28 Dec 19 '18 at 16:43

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As a workaround, you can try using https url for any github repo:

cd myParentRepo
git config url.https://github.com/.insteadOf ssh://[email protected]/
# or
git config url.https://github.com/.insteadOf [email protected]:
VonC
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The SSH protocol doesn’t support anonymous access to a Git repository.

So, don't use the SSH protocol. Instead, use either the Smart HTTP protocol (recommended) or the Git protocol.

For every submodule URL in your repository's .gitmodules file, replace [email protected]: with either https://github.com/ (to use the Smart HTTP protocol) or git://github.com/ (to use the Git protocol).

More info: Git - The Protocols

ma11hew28
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This works for me in the .gitmodules file:

url = git+ssh://[email protected]/path-to-repo
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