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Problem
After adding ssh key to your github. You might face an error while cloning private repositories, when you give git clone, it might take longtime than usual and throws an error as
- Cloning into ‘daily-logs’…
ssh: connect to host github.com port 22: Connection timed out
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.
Solution:
- go to terminal
sudo nano ~/.ssh/config
- Then paste the below lines
Host github.com
Hostname ssh.github.com
Port 443
- Then click clt+x
- enter y
- click Enter
- In your terminal paste the below command
ssh -T git@github.com
It will show a message as:
“Hi xxx, you’ve successfully authenticated”
Close your terminal, reopen it and start cloning