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Trying to Generate a public key for my git. Using Powershell.
PS>ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "my@emailaddress.com"
Generating public/private rsa key pair.
Enter file in which to save the key (//.ssh/id_rsa):
Could not create directory '//.ssh': Read-only file system
Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase):
Enter same passphrase again:
Saving key "//.ssh/id_rsa" failed: No such file or directory
If I give a location for the file and run
ssh -vT git@github.com
It doesn't check the custom location for the public key to use
OpenSSH_7.1p1, OpenSSL 1.0.2d 9 Jul 2015
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: Connecting to github.com [<<ANIPADDRESS>>] port 22.
debug1: Connection established.
debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory
debug1: identity file /.ssh/id_rsa type -1
debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory
debug1: identity file /.ssh/id_rsa-cert type -1
debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory
debug1: identity file /.ssh/id_dsa type -1
debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory
debug1: identity file /.ssh/id_dsa-cert type -1
debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory
debug1: identity file /.ssh/id_ecdsa type -1
debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory
debug1: identity file /.ssh/id_ecdsa-cert type -1
debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory
debug1: identity file /.ssh/id_ed25519 type -1
debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory
debug1: identity file /.ssh/id_ed25519-cert type -1
debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0
debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_7.1
debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version libssh-0.7.0
debug1: no match: libssh-0.7.0
debug1: Authenticating to github.com:22 as 'git'
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT received
debug1: kex: server->client chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com <implicit> none
debug1: kex: client->server chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com <implicit> none
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_ECDH_REPLY
debug1: Server host key: ssh-rsa SHA256:<<SCAREDTOPUBLISH>>
debug1: Host 'github.com' is known and matches the RSA host key.
debug1: Found key in /.ssh/known_hosts:1
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received
debug1: Roaming not allowed by server
debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_REQUEST sent
debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey
debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
debug1: Trying private key: /.ssh/id_rsa
debug1: Trying private key: /.ssh/id_dsa
debug1: Trying private key: /.ssh/id_ecdsa
debug1: Trying private key: /.ssh/id_ed25519
debug1: No more authentication methods to try.
Permission denied (publickey).
The command could not save your key, likely because it was unable to determine your $HOME directory. Specify a file, at a location where you have write access:
ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "my@emailaddress.com" -f /path/to/key
This will save your private key in /path/to/key and the public key in /path/to/key.pub.
When successful,
instead of an error message, you will see something like:
Your identification has been saved in /path/to/key.
Your public key has been saved in /path/to/key.pub.
The key fingerprint is:
76:f7:82:04:1e:64:eb:9c:df:dc:0a:6b:26:73:1b:2c
The key's randomart image is:
+--[ RSA 2048]----+
| o |
| o . |
| + |
| + + |
| S o . |
| . = = o |
| E * + o |
| o.++ o |
| *o.. |
+-----------------+
And then, to make ssh look for the file at the custom location,
use the -i flag:
ssh -i /path/to/key -vT git@github.com
Alternatively,
if you have an authentication agent running,
you can add your key to the agent with:
ssh-add /path/to/key
Once your key is stored by the agent, you can simply do:
ssh -T git@github.com
The response should look something like:
Hi USER! You've successfully authenticated, but GitHub does not provide shell access.
And you can go ahead and clone your repository with:
git clone git@github.com:USER/REPO
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For me, the ssh-keygen command appears to fail only when using cmd:
Your identification has been saved in [...]/.ssh/id_rsa.
fdopen [...]/.ssh/id_rsa.pub failed: No such file or directory
The private key is generated, but the public key file is created with 0 bytes.
If I run the command in Git Bash on Windows, it works.
i tried this instead of ~/.ssh/whatever_file_name
this code worked for me
ssh-add /Users/<user>/.ssh/id_ed25519
replace <user> with your user folder name...
You are getting the error: Saving key "//.ssh/id_rsa" failed: No such file or directory
Seems to me like you need to create folder .ssh
Try mkdir .ssh, and then run ssh-keygen -t rsa again.
