CircleCI fails during the first step of build

I forked ndex2-client and set up CircleCI with my own account. The CircleCI tests (at least via my account) fail immediately during setup:

#!/bin/sh
set -e

# Workaround old docker images with incorrect $HOME
# check https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/2968 for details
if [ "${HOME}" = "/" ]
then
  export HOME=$(getent passwd $(id -un) | cut -d: -f6)
fi

mkdir -p ~/.ssh

echo 'github.com ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABIwAAAQEAq2A7hRGmdnm9tUDbO9IDSwBK6TbQa+PXYPCPy6rbTrTtw7PHkccKrpp0yVhp5HdEIcKr6pLlVDBfOLX9QUsyCOV0wzfjIJNlGEYsdlLJizHhbn2mUjvSAHQqZETYP81eFzLQNnPHt4EVVUh7VfDESU84KezmD5QlWpXLmvU31/yMf+Se8xhHTvKSCZIFImWwoG6mbUoWf9nzpIoaSjB+weqqUUmpaaasXVal72J+UX2B+2RPW3RcT0eOzQgqlJL3RKrTJvdsjE3JEAvGq3lGHSZXy28G3skua2SmVi/w4yCE6gbODqnTWlg7+wC604ydGXA8VJiS5ap43JXiUFFAaQ==
bitbucket.org ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABIwAAAQEAubiN81eDcafrgMeLzaFPsw2kNvEcqTKl/VqLat/MaB33pZy0y3rJZtnqwR2qOOvbwKZYKiEO1O6VqNEBxKvJJelCq0dTXWT5pbO2gDXC6h6QDXCaHo6pOHGPUy+YBaGQRGuSusMEASYiWunYN0vCAI8QaXnWMXNMdFP3jHAJH0eDsoiGnLPBlBp4TNm6rYI74nMzgz3B9IikW4WVK+dc8KZJZWYjAuORU3jc1c/NPskD2ASinf8v3xnfXeukU0sJ5N6m5E8VLjObPEO+mN2t/FZTMZLiFqPWc/ALSqnMnnhwrNi2rbfg/rd/IpL8Le3pSBne8+seeFVBoGqzHM9yXw==
' >> ~/.ssh/known_hosts

(umask 077; touch ~/.ssh/id_rsa)
chmod 0600 ~/.ssh/id_rsa
(cat <<EOF > ~/.ssh/id_rsa
$CHECKOUT_KEY
EOF
)

# use git+ssh instead of https
git config --global url."ssh://git@github.com".insteadOf "https://github.com" || true

if [ -e nicecxModel/tests/.git ]
then
  cd nicecxModel/tests
  git remote set-url origin "$CIRCLE_REPOSITORY_URL" || true
else
  mkdir -p nicecxModel/tests
  cd nicecxModel/tests
  git clone "$CIRCLE_REPOSITORY_URL" .
fi

if [ -n "$CIRCLE_TAG" ]
then
  git fetch --force origin "refs/tags/${CIRCLE_TAG}"
else
  git fetch --force origin "fix_requirements:remotes/origin/fix_requirements"
fi

if [ -n "$CIRCLE_TAG" ]
then
  git reset --hard "$CIRCLE_SHA1"
  git checkout -q "$CIRCLE_TAG"
elif [ -n "$CIRCLE_BRANCH" ]
then
  git reset --hard "$CIRCLE_SHA1"
  git checkout -q -B "$CIRCLE_BRANCH"
fi

git reset --hard "$CIRCLE_SHA1"
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘nicecxModel’: Permission denied
Exited with code 1

Have you seen the same issue with the ndexbio account?

ndexbio / ndex2-client

CircleCI fails during the first step of build #2