Saving ssh key fails

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i just started a Git tutorial and I get to a deadend  I try to generate a rsa key part and it fails  I did this  in git bash   ssh-keygen -t rsa -C  myemail myemail com    And i got this   Generating public private rsa key pair  Enter file in which to save the key   c Users Eva  ssh id rsa   enter passphrase  enter same passphrase again  open  c Users Eva  ssh id rsa failed  no such file or directory  Saving the key failed  c Users Eva  ssh id rsa    I tried to save in a different folder and it went OK  but now i do the command ssh -T git github com  and it gives me the error permisson denied  publickey

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If you prefer to use a GUI to create the keys

Use Putty Gen to generate a key
Export the key as an open SSH key
As mentioned by @VonC create the .ssh directory and then you can drop the private and public keys in there
Or use a GUI program (like Tortoise Git) to use the SSH keys

For a walkthrough on putty gen for the above steps, please see http://ask-leo.com/how_do_i_create_and_use_public_keys_with_ssh.html

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I was using bash on windows that came with git  The problem was I assumed the tilde     which I was using to denote my home path would expand properly  It does work when using cd  but to fix this error I had to just give it the absolute path

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On Windows 8 1 using CMDER  I created the ssh key with this file path  c Users youruser  ssh id rsa whatever  the problem was the   that I was using  With this path I didn t create the folder before running the command  there is no need to run mkdir because the command will create the folder automatically

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For windows use enter button 3 times Enter file in which to save the key   c Users Rupesh  ssh id rsa   Enter passphrase  empty for no passphrase   Enter same passphrase again  its work for me

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It looks like you are executing that command from a DOS session  see this thread   and that means you need to create the  ssh directory before said command   Or you can execute it from the bash session  part of the msysgit distribution   and it should work

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In Windows I had to create the environment variable HOME pointing to my user profile first  C  Users  lt name gt   or whatever directory you prefer   Then start a new command line window  create a a  ssh directory in your user profile or choosen diretory using mkdir   ssh  command   After doing that I was able to use the ssh-keygen without any path problems

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For Linux on terminal use   ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C   lt comment gt     this generate new modeled key  Or can create as   ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 2048 -C  any comment    Then continue following terminal   give any name to the file as asked Again follow it with empty passphrase  and continue  Then goto the  home user  ssh id ed25519 or  home user  ssh id rsa  is hidden file  look by doing ctrl h to unhide hidden file  and copy it to gitlab    profile    setting    ssh    create new key there by pasting copied key and NOTE  public key always starts with ssh  Enjoy  Help gitlab-Help

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I had the same issue  I had to provide the full path using Windows conventions  At this step   Enter file in which to save the key   c Users Eva  ssh id rsa    Provide the following value   c  users eva  ssh id rsa

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I struggled with the same problem for a while just now  using Mac   Here is what I did and it finally worked   1  Confirm the  ssh directory exists    show all files including hidden ls -a     2  Accept all default values by just pressing enter at the prompt  Enter file in which to save the key   Users username  ssh id rsa    Enter passphrase  empty for no passphrase    Enter same passphrase again     You should get a message    Your identification has been saved in  Users username  ssh id rsa  Your public key has been saved in  Users username  ssh id rsa pub  The key fingerprint is  BZA156 HVhsjsdhfdkjfdfhdX BundfOytLezXvbx831 s youremail  email com The key s randomart image is XXXXX   PS If you are configuring git for rails  do the following  source    git config --global color ui true git config --global user name  yourusername  git config --global user email  youremail email com  ssh-keygen -t rsa -C  youremail email com      then accept all defaults by pressing enter

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For MacOS  Open terminal  and make sure you have  ssh directory    On your home    folder enter ls -hal and you will see all hidden directories and make sure you have  ssh directory  if not do mkdir  ssh  then enter this ssh-keygen -t rsa -C  myemail myemail com   then you have  Generating public private rsa key pair  Enter file in which to save the key   Users YOURUSERNAME  ssh id rsa    press Enter  you don t need to enter nothing if you agree with that path or you need to enter your path from root of volume   then follow answer what is gonna ask press Enter   Check it here https   help github com en enterprise 2 16 user authenticating-to-github generating-a-new-ssh-key-and-adding-it-to-the-ssh-agent

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If you re using Windows  the unix-style default path of ssh-keygen is at fault   In Line 2 it says Enter file in which to save the key   c Users Eva  ssh id rsa    That full filename in the parantheses is the default  obviously Windows cannot access a file like that  If you type the Windows equivalent  c  Users Eva  ssh id rsa   it should work   Before running this  you also need to create the folder  You can do this by running mkdir c  Users Eva  ssh  or by created the folder   ssh   from File Explorer  note the second dot at the end  which will get removed automatically  and is required to create a folder that has a dot at the beginning    c  Users Administrator  ssh gt ssh-keygen -t rsa -C  myemail myemail com  Generating public private rsa key pair  Enter file in which to save the key   home Administrator  ssh id rsa   C  Users Administrator  ssh id rsa Enter passphrase  empty for no passphrase   Enter same passphrase again  Your identification has been saved in C  Users Administrator  ssh id rsa  Your public key has been saved in C  Users Administrator  ssh id rsa pub  The key fingerprint is      myemail myemail com The key s randomart image is        I know this is an old thread  but I thought the answer might help others

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You have to create the  ssh folder yourself for saving ssh keys   By the way  I used this path style  C  Users you  ssh id rsa

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I faced the same problem   Solution on windows     open start menu and type cmd Right and choose run as administrator Then type   cd Users YOURUSERNAME   Replace  YOURUSERNAME  with your windows account name The type  mkdir  ssh   This will create a  ssh folder

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Your method should work fine on a Mac  but on Windows  two additional steps are necessary    Create a new folder in the desired location and name it   ssh    note the closing dot - this will vanish  but is required to create a folder beginning with      When prompted  use the file path format C  Users NAME  ssh id rsa  note no closing dot on  ssh     Saving the id rsa key in this location should solve the permission error

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