[CVALE] [Off Topic] Any of you guys use GitHub?

[Joshua J. Kugler]

On Tuesday 15 December 2009, Landon Blake said something like:
> I had uploaded a public SSH key to my GitHub account, and I had a
> private key loaded into Pageant.

You exported your Putty key as an OpenSSH formatted key, correct?

> All of the commands on that web page worked without error until I got
> to this command:
>
> git push origin master
>
> Ever time I try to execute that command I get a connection error. I'm
> guessing it is because I don't have my SSH keys set up properly.

What is the full error?

> When I get home I am going to try installing Git on my Linux box to
> see if I can get the command to work. I was previously trying this
> from a Windows XP box at work. If you have troubleshooting
> suggestions, I'd appreciate them.

Putty goesn't generate OpenSSH format keys, by default. You have to 
export the OpenSSH public key from Puttygen.

Without a full error message, that's all I can give you for now. :)

j

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