I thought that whereis command would report only based on the knowledge annex has locally in git-annex branch, but apparently it is trying to query for information even in --fast mode:

[[!format sh """
$> git annex whereis --fast bold.nii.gz
yoh@dat....
Permission denied (publickey,password).
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.
whereis bold.nii.gz 
(2 copies) 
  	899f0347-0888-48ef-91b6-bac213ca8cef -- [datalad-archives]
   	c8bd3d05-33d4-4b59-9d53-ca7efbdcdd13 -- yoh@smaug:/mnt/btrfs/datasets/datalad/crawl/openfmri/ds000001 [here]

  datalad-archives: dl+archive:MD5E-s2527262329--bd3ea399057c529b37b09dcecec1ca60.0raw.tgz/ds001_R1.1.0/sub001/BOLD/task001_run001/bold.nii.gz#size=47241449

"""]]

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