'Gitlab deploy keys configured but still doesn't grant access

I just configured Gitlab with a deploy key so that it doesn't ask for a username and password every time—but when pulling, it still fails with the following error:

[email protected]: Permission denied (publickey, keyboard-interactive).
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

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

What I did so far is this:

Generated the SSH key that can be found under ~/.ssh/
Copied and pasted id_rsa.pub in the Gitlab deploy keys section
Added the key to the SSH registery with ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa

Setup a config file under ~/.ssh with following contents:

Host gitlab.co
RSAAuthentication yes
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa

Changed the git remote from the one using HTTPs to the one using SSH.

I searched both Google and StackOverflow for a possible solution, but didn't find any similar discussion. Any ideas what I may be missing?

Solution 1:^[1]

I was using sudo to do git pull, which resulted in the server trying to authenticate with the sudo user's SSH key.

I fixed it by changing the owner of the .git directory to be my logged-in user, meaning this command:

sudo chown -R ubuntu:ubuntu .git

After this, it all worked fine.

I believe this is a common scenario and I am now surprised I couldn't find more info about this.

Solution 2:^[2]

I have another situation, it runs well before, but in a few days I have not use the git pull, and today, it returns

root@api-test:~# git clone [email protected]:xxxx.git
Cloning into 'designcfg'...
[email protected]: Permission denied (publickey,keyboard-interactive).
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

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

when I tried.

And I change the .ssh/config from

Host gitlab
    Hostname gitlab.com
    IdentitiesOnly yes
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/xxx_rsa

Host gitlab.com
    Hostname gitlab.com
    IdentitiesOnly yes
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/xxx_rsa

It works again.

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Solution 1	Jeremy Caney
Solution 2	Zagfai

'Gitlab deploy keys configured but still doesn't grant access

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