Private Key Is Lost

Updated on 2023-12-04 GMT+08:00

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Symptom

git clone fails because the private key is incorrect or is lost. When the key authentication fails, the system switches to password-based authentication. Since no password is configured previously, the password authentication fails, either, as shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1 Authentication failure due to private key loss
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Solution

Log in to the CodeArts Repo service repository list page, click the alias in the upper right corner, and choose This Account Settings > SSH Keys. The page is displayed.
On the SSH Keys page displayed, click to delete the existing key.

Generate a new key pair.
Run ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "abc123@***.com" to generate a key pair.
Copy the generated public key and run cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub.
Figure 2 Copying a public key
On the SSH Keys page, click Add SSH Key. As shown below.
On the CodeArts Repo homepage, click SSH in the Repository URL column of the repository to be cloned.
Clone the code.
Run git clone SSH URL.
Figure 3 Cloning code