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# Troubleshooting

This page contains some common seen issues and their solutions.

## SSH issues

For issues reaching repositories over `ssh` while the gitea web front-end, but
`https` based git repository access works fine, consider looking into the following.

```
Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
```

This error signifies that the server rejected a log in attempt, check the
following things:

* On the client:
  * Ensure the public and private ssh keys are added to the correct Gitea user.
  * Make sure there are no issues in the remote url, ensure the name of the
    git user (before the `@`) is spelled correctly.
  * Ensure public and private ssh keys are correct on client machine.
  * Try to connect using ssh (ssh git@myremote.example) to ensure a connection
    can be made.
* On the server:
  * Make sure the repository exists and is correctly named.
  * Check the permissions of the `.ssh` directory in the system user's home directory.
  * Verify that the correct public keys are added to `.ssh/authorized_keys`.
    Try to run `Rewrite '.ssh/authorized_keys' file (for Gitea SSH keys)` on the
    Gitea admin panel.
  * Read gitea logs.
  * Read /var/log/auth (or similar).
  * Check permissions of repositories.

The following is an example of a missing public SSH key where authentication
succeeded, but some other setting is preventing SSH from reaching the correct
repository.

```
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

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

In this case, look into the following settings:

* On the server:
  * Make sure that the `git` system user has a usable shell set
    * Verify this with `getent passwd git | cut -d: -f7`
    * `usermod` or `chsh` can be used to modify this.
  * Ensure that the `gitea serv` command in `.ssh/authorized_keys` uses the
    correct configuration file.