unable to get SSH keys working between sourcetree and github

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turbo2oh picture turbo2oh · Dec 17, 2013 · Viewed 34.3k times · Source

I was able to create a key and connect to github following these instructions via the command prompt successfully:

https://help.github.com/articles/generating-ssh-keys

However, when I try to connect via Sourcetree and putty I cannot. I've tried:

  1. generating a new key with the putty key generator (SSH-2 RSA)
  2. entering a passphrase
  3. saving the private key
  4. saving the public key and adding a .pub extension
  5. copying/pasting the key from the putty key generator window into github
  6. attemping to refresh branches on a pull from my private github repository from my local repo using the SSH clone URL I got from github

I also tried opening the key generated from the github command line instructions and it wanted me to convert it to a putty-type key which I did and saved off, tried with that one. Also no luck.

What am I doing wrong?

Answer

turbo2oh picture turbo2oh · Jan 17, 2014

In order to get it worked I ended up going to Tools -> Options -> SSH Client and changing it to OpenSSH. I generated and uploaded several different types of keys trying to get it work as well but I think this is what finally did it.

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