PuTTY cannot use keys in OpenSSH format. You need to convert your key to .ppk format first. For that, use PuTTYgen from PuTTY package. Run PuTTYgen; Press Load to load the private key in OpenSSH format; Press Save private key to save the private key in .ppk format
In TortoiseGit settings go to Network. In field SSH Client, specify the path to TortoiseGitPLink e.g.: C:\Program Files\TortoiseGit\bin\TortoiseGitPLink.exe
There are many, many reasons why client-side debugging (ssh -vvv …) shows: debug2: we did not send a packet, disable method Many of these are listed in the answers to SSH public key won’t send to server on Unix & Linux, but, unfortunately, the client does not give any indication as to which one applies. … Read more
If you are getting the following error: Warning: the ECDSA host key for ‘github.com’ differs from the key for the IP address ‘IP_ADDRESS’ I would recommend to do the following: $ ssh-keygen -R github.com If that does not work then remove the IP itself from known-host: $ ssh-keygen -R IP_ADDRESS This should would fix your … Read more
Git does not know, or care. It just runs ssh. How does ssh know? It looks at your ~/.ssh/config file (edit: or gets it from ssh-agent; see below): Host github.com # IdentitiesOnly yes # see below to decide if you want this IdentityFile ~/.ssh/github_id_file Host domain.com IdentitiesOnly yes # again, see below IdentityFile ~/.ssh/another_id_file Edit: … Read more
Go to your GitLab account: https://gitlab.com/ Click on Settings on the top right drop-down, which will appear once you select the icon(white-fox image [specific to my profile]). Click on Settings on the top right drop-down, which will appear once you select the icon(white-fox image). Click on SSH Keys: Add/Paste the SSH Key. How to generate … Read more
On windows you might need to start the ssh agent like this # start the ssh-agent in the background $ eval $(ssh-agent -s) > Agent pid 59566 Add your SSH private key to the ssh-agent. If you created your key with a different name, or if you are adding an existing key that has a … Read more
You can use ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa to fix this.
This little one liner script works on sh, bash, and zsh. I use it every time there is no ssh-copy-id, for example when I’m on older version of OSX. cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh <user>@<hostname> ‘cat >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys’ How it works I am sending the public keay to the Unix standard output (STDOUT) using the cat … Read more
(I’ve voted to close this as a possible duplicate, but I might as well add a similar answer anyway.) When using the SSH transport, GitHub identifies you as a user based on the SSH key that you use to authenticate. So, you need to make sure that git is using one SSH key for one … Read more