Permission Denied

[leonurium]

=== ERROR: Pull failed using GIT /usr/bin/git and DIR /var/www/html/repository ===
error: cannot open .git/FETCH_HEAD: Permission denied

[jsanbae]

This works for me:

1. Open a terminal to the directory for your repository on the server.

2. run sudo chown -R yourusername:webserverusername .git to change the group of the repo.
   

3. run sudo chmod -R g+s .git to make the group assignment inherited for new files/dirs.
   

4. run sudo chmod -R 775 .git to set read & write for both owner and group.
   

[UBT-FJ]

I get the same error when I use the $user:www-data

When I use www:data:www:data I get the error
git@gitlab.com: Permission denied (publickey,keyboard-interactive).
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

I could not use the scripts!

[jonasnapoles]

I get the same error with Ubuntu command line. I managed to solve it, after logging in as root.

sudo su

git pull