Unable to clone other repositories in Codespaces

[aboo]

I have enabled codespaces for a repository which is part of an organisation. The code depends on another repository from the same organisation. Meaning it needs to be able to clone the second repository in order to be able to function.

I've read the followings:

• Managing access to other repositories within your codespace
• Codespaces for multi-repository and monorepo scenarios

and I ended up with the following devcontainer.json file

{
  "build": {
    "dockerfile": "Dockerfile"
  },
  "name": "Flutter",
  "extensions": ["Dart-Code.dart-code", "Dart-Code.flutter","auchenberg.vscode-browser-preview"],
  "forwardPorts": [3000],
  "customizations": {
      "codespaces": {
        "repositories": {
          "org/repo": {
            "permissions": "write-all"
          }
        }
      }
    }
}

Still when I try to clone the container using either of the commands below it won't work:

git clone https://github.com/org/repo.git
Cloning into 'repo'...
remote: Write access to repository not granted.
fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/org/repo.git/': The requested URL returned error: 403

or

git clone [email protected]:org/repo.git
Cloning into 'repo'...
The authenticity of host 'github.com (20.205.243.166)' can't be established.
ECDSA key fingerprint is SHA256:p2QAMXNIC1TJYWeIOttrVc98/R1BUFWu3/LiyKgUfQM.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
Warning: Permanently added 'github.com,20.205.243.166' (ECDSA) 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.

If I add an SSH key just like a normal machine everything works fine. But that cannot happen every time the container starts.

I've tried:

• giving specific permissions instead of write-all
• defining permission for org/*

I was wondering if anyone has any clue on what could possibly be the issue. Cheers.

[aboo]

The problem is solved.

I had to delete the container and recreate it again so that it asks for permission authorization.

Not sure if there is anyway that this can be done without deleting the container.

Also the SSH mode doesn't work and I have to use the HTTPS mode.

[aboo]

Hi @brosand. No I didn't do anything else other than what I mentioned here.

[cox-michael]

Can you explain how you got it to ask for permission authorization? I created a new one and it never prompted for that. I have a similar json file as you, but mine has username/* instead of org/repo.

[cox-michael]

Figured it out. I hadn't properly setup the devcontainer files (Add a dev container configuration to your repository). After I did that I committed the changes and had to start a new codespace. Rebuilding and even Full rebuild didn't add the permissions.
Thanks for sharing what you learned!

[konscodes]

Thank you for the answer! ⭐️ spent a lot of time here troubleshooting this issue.
In the end, I created a new repo for the .devcontainer folder and its config with permissions to write-all for username/*

[euLita]

@aboo

hi,
and how did you achieve this feat? Please colleague, I am facing a problem of this nature.

•   remote: HTTP Basic: Access denied. The provided password or token is incorrect or your account has 2FA enabled and you must use a personal access token instead of a password. See https://gitlab.com/help/topics/git/troubleshooting_git#error-on-git-fetch-http-basic-access-denied
  

•   fatal: Authentication failed for 'https://gitlab.com/
  

  thanks so much in advence @aboo

[ossanna16]

Hey there @aboo and thank you for asking a good question! I'm glad you found our community 🙂

[ghost]

Still not working for me! Tried GitHub hosted and local codespace.

I have

	"customizations": {
		"codespaces": {
			"repositories": {
			  "ansys/mathbox-kernel": {
				"permissions": "write-all"
			  }
			}
		},
		"vscode": {
			"extensions": [
				"ms-azuretools.vscode-docker"
			]
		}
	}

rebuilt from scratch several times. Always get:

Cloning into 'mathbox-kernel'...
remote: Write access to repository not granted.
fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/org/repo.git/': The requested URL returned error: 403

When I use my exlicit access tokens in the form of:
https://username:[email protected]/org/repo.git

[cyborgdennett]

I have the same problem! is it fixed?

[pault-tech]

Also got this working with above configuration. Had to delete the codespace and recreate to get the permission authorization dialog (full rebuild container wasn't sufficient)

Also seeing that only the https (not ssh) git protocol is working (perhaps ssh port to github.com is blocked)