unable to access 'https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/': The requested URL returned error: 403

[Mark Charsley]

Hi. I'm trying to follow the instructions at https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

Step 1 fails with

git clone g...@github.com:mcharsley/selenium.git

Cloning into 'selenium'...

Warning: Permanently added the RSA host key for IP address '192.30.253.112' to the list of known hosts.

Permission denied (publickey).

fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights

and the repository exists.

(I get the same if I don't replace "username" with "mcharsley"

but git clone https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium worked OK. So I went ahead with that

I'm now up to step 7. And that's failing with

git push origin NetworkConnectionFix

Username for 'https://github.com': mcharsley

Password for 'https://mcha...@github.com': 

remote: Permission to SeleniumHQ/selenium.git denied to mcharsley.

fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/': The requested URL returned error: 403

My account's 2-factor enabled, but I've set up a Personal Access Token with all the "Repo" scopes. Entering garbage rather than a PAT gives a different "Invalid username or password" error, so it's a Authz not an Authn error.

I'm a inexperienced with git, much less github, so it could easily be my being an idiot, but having said that

 - are the instructions up-to-date?

 - is the problem due to my cloning the wrong way?

 - is there some step I missed?

 - do I need to be permissioned somewhere (I'm not asking for a commit bit. Just the ability to upload a patch for review)

 - should I just give up and mail a patch file somewhere?

thanks

Mark

[Paul Hammant]

Can you pair with someone who's github savvy?

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[Daniel Wagner-Hall]

It sounds like you don't have an SSH private key set up... https://help.github.com/articles/error-permission-denied-publickey/ has details, but basically you need the following:

1) Go to https://github.com/settings/keys and make sure you have a key set up - there are instructions there for how to generate one if not.

2) Edit ~/.ssh/config to have an entry which looks something like:

Host github.com

    HostName github.com

    IdentityFile /path/to/your/private/key

    User mcharsley

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[Mark Charsley]

Bah found the problem. I fell over at the first hurdle, and never forked the project (which explains why my git clone failed in step 1). So my origin is the master branch, which obviously I don't have permissions to push into.

All sorted now

Mark