Issue on adding SSH key to GitHub

Simply follow these steps and you will set up your SSH key in no time:

• Generate a new ssh key (or skip this step if you already have a key) ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "your@email"

• Once you have your key set in home/.ssh directory (or Users/<your user>.ssh under windows), open it and copy the content

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How can I add the SSH key to the GitHub account?

• Login to the GitHub account

• Click on the rancher on the top right (Settings)

  

• Click on the SSH keys

  

• Click on the Add SSH key

  

• Paste your key and save

And you are all set to go :-)

If you are using a Mac and are typing out GitHub's instructions (e.g. Generating a new SSH key and adding it to the ssh-agent, you're probably typing and only tabbing (e.g. auto-completing) to:

$ pbcopy < ~/.ssh/id_rsa

and not

$ pbcopy < ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

With the former you're actually copying, and trying to paste your private key.

I hope that saves you some time.

Another way to copy the public key to the clipboard:

clip < ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

ssh-keygen will generate you a pair of keys, one private and one public. It sounds like you uploaded the wrong one. GitHub wants the public key, typically here: ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub.