Intermittent SSH authentication failures: same key alternates between success and Permission denied (publickey) #212030
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about 10 min ago |
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! [remote rejected] BBYBUG-> BBYBUG (Internal Server Error) git@github.com: Permission denied (publickey). |
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Same issue, intermittent. One of several pull or push commands succeeds, and the same |
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I would guess that this is a result of the once again Incident with Pull Requests, Git Operations and Issues |
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Same |
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Same issue |
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still happening |
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Same in my org. |
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Reproduced on macOS with Ed25519 on November 4, 2026, at 10:37–10:40 UTC. |
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I'm experiencing the exact same issue on Arch Linux (Omarchy). OpenSSH 10.6p1 This started today, November 4, 2026. |
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I couldn't push for 2 hours, but now it worked! 🚀 |
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Still experiencing the same intermittent failures |
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I am also experiencing same error. |
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Hi everyone,
Starting today, pushing to a repository that previously worked reliably has been intermittently failing:
Environment
Troubleshooting results
Repeated tests from the same machine and session produce inconsistent results:
Verbose SSH logs show the same RSA key being offered in both successful and failed attempts. On successful attempts, GitHub reports Server accepts key; on failed
attempts, it rejects that key and authentication fails.
The observed connections used github.com at 20.250.119.67. No SSH or Git configuration changes were made between these tests, and no Git SSH-command overrides were
found.
Is anyone else experiencing intermittent SSH public-key authentication failures? Could this indicate a GitHub-side issue, or is there another diagnostic I should run
to narrow it down?
Thanks!
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