I am having trouble authenticating with my SSH key when trying to access a Hugging Face Git repository. When I attempt to connect, I receive the following error message: git@hf.co: Permission denied (publickey). I have provided more detailed debug information of ssh -vvvT git@hf.co below: debug1: Next authentication method: publickey debug1: get_agent_identities: bound agent to hostkey debug1: get_agent_identities: agent returned 1 keys debug1: Will attempt key: /Users/kenshin/.ssh/hf_id ED25519 SHA256:P0dAH1Z2UlBk...q8eLtjxg4 explicit agent debug1: Offering public key: /Users/kenshin/.ssh/hf_id ED25519 SHA256:P0dAH1Z2UlBk...q8eLtjxg4 explicit agent debug3: send packet: type 50 debug2: we sent a publickey packet, wait for reply debug3: receive packet: type 51 debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey debug2: we did not send a packet, disable method debug1: No more authentication methods to try. git@hf.co: Permission denied (publickey). I have verified that: My private key has not been corrupted or modified. I have added public key to my ssh account. I have tried generating new key pairs several times. My network works fine. Despite these checks, I am still unable to authenticate successfully. I would greatly appreciate any assistance or guidance you can provide to help me resolve this issue. Please let me know if you need any additional information. Thank you for your help!

I am facing the same error since yesterday. Did you get any support?

Indeed, it seems there is some problem on hugging face end, I am also facing the same issue since yesterday, checked everything, is there any official hugging face channel where we can report this issue other than this forum ?

I am using almost the same way on Github without any problem, but it just doesn’t work on Huggingface

Same here, I even re-created my SSH key at the peak of the denial phase.

Also have this trouble since yesterday

any one have the luck to find any solution for this?

same issue here. I use the same ssk key pari on github which works fine.

i believe its fixed now, working fine for me.

Git@hf.co: Permission denied (publickey)

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John6666 August 22, 2025, 1:08am 19

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