# Can't get git module to work -- permission denied **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [March 6, 2014, 10:26pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/cant-get-git-module-to-work-permission-denied/14720 "2014-03-06T22:26:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mike\_Titus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Mike\_Titus](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Mike_Titus)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2014, 10:26pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/cant-get-git-module-to-work-permission-denied/14720/1 "2014-03-06T22:26:19Z")
I’ve created a GitHub user on the target server with a private key in ~/.ssh/id\_rsa (and added the public key to GitHub). If I “sudo su deploy” I can then clone my repo via the command line without error: $ git clone [git@github.com](mailto:git@github.com):me/my-repo.git target\_folder However, I cannot clone from my Ansible playbook using the git module: yii.yml ---
**Author:** ![Mike\_Titus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Mike\_Titus](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Mike_Titus)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2014, 10:31pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/cant-get-git-module-to-work-permission-denied/14720/2 "2014-03-06T22:31:28Z")
Ansible version 1.5, from Ubuntu 13.10 to Ubuntu 12.04 ---
**Author:** ![tannerjc](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/tannerjc/32/985_2.png) [@tannerjc](https://forum.ansible.com/u/tannerjc)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2014, 10:33pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/cant-get-git-module-to-work-permission-denied/14720/3 "2014-03-06T22:33:37Z")
We can’t be certain what user is executing the git command without seeing the -vvvv output from your play. The git module in 1.5 has a key\_file parameter to pass in the path to an ssh key to use. Try passing the absolute path to your private key with that. ---
**Author:** ![Mike\_Titus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Mike\_Titus](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Mike_Titus)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2014, 10:46pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/cant-get-git-module-to-work-permission-denied/14720/4 "2014-03-06T22:46:31Z")
Added key\_file parameter, same error. The fact that id\_rsa cannot be accessed strongly suggests that my attempts to specify the user for the deploy role is not working, but I can’t think of any alternate syntax. I really need to run most of the tasks as “ubuntu” but the git deploy tasks as “ava-deploy”: TASK: [yii-deploy | checkout yii-admin] \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* \<54.185.9.246\> ESTABLISH CONNECTION FOR USER: ubuntu \<54.185.9.246\> REMOTE\_MODULE git [repo=git@github.com](mailto:repo=git@github.com):me/my-repo.git dest=/mnt/live/yii-admin accept\_hostkey=yes key\_file=/home/ava-deploy/.ssh/id\_rsa \<54.185.9.246\> EXEC [‘ssh’, ‘-C’, ‘-tt’, ‘-vvv’, ‘-o’, ‘ControlMaster=auto’, ‘-o’, ‘ControlPersist=60s’, ‘-o’, ‘ControlPath=/home/me/.ansible/cp/ansible-ssh-%h-%p-%r’, ‘-o’, ‘Port=22’, ‘-o’, ‘IdentityFile=creds/ubuntu\_yii’, ‘-o’, ‘KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no’, ‘-o’, ‘PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey’, ‘-o’, ‘PasswordAuthentication=no’, ‘-o’, ‘User=ubuntu’, ‘-o’, ‘ConnectTimeout=10’, ‘xx.xxx.x.xxx’, “/bin/sh -c ‘mkdir -p $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1394145698.52-234897656048864 && chmod a+rx $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1394145698.52-234897656048864 && echo $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1394145698.52-234897656048864’”] \<54.185.9.246\> PUT /tmp/tmp7pXt8U TO /home/ubuntu/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1394145698.52-234897656048864/git \<54.185.9.246\> EXEC [‘ssh’, ‘-C’, ‘-tt’, ‘-vvv’, ‘-o’, ‘ControlMaster=auto’, ‘-o’, ‘ControlPersist=60s’, ‘-o’, ‘ControlPath=/home/me/.ansible/cp/ansible-ssh-%h-%p-%r’, ‘-o’, ‘Port=22’, ‘-o’, ‘IdentityFile=creds/ubuntu\_yii’, ‘-o’, ‘KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no’, ‘-o’, ‘PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey’, ‘-o’, ‘PasswordAuthentication=no’, ‘-o’, ‘User=ubuntu’, ‘-o’, ‘ConnectTimeout=10’, ‘xx.xxx.x.xxx’, “/bin/sh -c ‘/usr/bin/python /home/ubuntu/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1394145698.52-234897656048864/git; rm -rf /home/ubuntu/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1394145698.52-234897656048864/ \>/dev/null 2\>&1’”] failed: [54.185.9.246] =\> {“cmd”: “/usr/bin/git ls-remote origin -h refs/heads/master”, “failed”: true, “item”: “”, “rc”: 128} stderr: Warning: Identity file /home/ava-deploy/.ssh/id\_rsa not accessible: Permission denied. Permission denied (publickey). fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly msg: Warning: Identity file /home/ava-deploy/.ssh/id\_rsa not accessible: Permission denied. Permission denied (publickey). fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly FATAL: all hosts have already failed – aborting ---
**Author:** ![tannerjc](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/tannerjc/32/985_2.png) [@tannerjc](https://forum.ansible.com/u/tannerjc)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2014, 11:17pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/cant-get-git-module-to-work-permission-denied/14720/5 "2014-03-06T23:17:40Z")
You -are- connecting to the remote host as the ubuntu user. It’s also probably true that the ubuntu user can -not- read /home/ava-deploy/.ssh/ on that host.