Cloning a failed repository fails. This could be a pagure issue, too.

For example, cloning lkocman's fork of pungi:
$ pag clone lkocman/pungi
$ git clone ssh://git@pagure.io/fork/lkocman/pungi.git pungi
Cloning into 'pungi'...
FATAL: R any fork/lkocman/pungi psabata DENIED by fallthru
(or you mis-spelled the reponame)
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.

pag lets me clone repositories I don't have access to. For example `pag clone pag' works just fine. I believe this should too.