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I have a codebase hosted in GitHub.

I have 2 ubuntu machines (both on 10.04) that I develop on. On these machines I had no trouble generating my keypairs as per GitHub's instructions. Using the command ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "emailaddress"

My server runs Debian Lenny.

Now I was planning to do a clone/pull from my server to keep that updated. Since that always worked fine for me when using SVN I figured I could do the same with git.

When trying to generate an ssh keypair however, I was presented with the problem that it insists on making an ssh2 keypair. Additionally, the -C command is invalid as well.

Also, running ssh-key --help yields a different output on my server than Ubuntu.

So, I'm kind of lost here. There are different applications named ssh-keygen at play here?

Disclaimer: I might be forgetting to check some really basic stuff but together with a friend we're trying to manage the hurdles we face on the fly. We're neither really hardcore linux people :)

womble
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-C is pretty useless.. it just adds a comment just use the command without it. Then add the new key to your github account

ssh-keygen -t rsa
Mike
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  • Well, the problem is that that doesn't work. The command works, git just doesnt approve of the result. This is the result output: Private key saved to /home/reinier/.ssh2/id_rsa_1024_a Public key saved to /home/reinier/.ssh2/id_rsa_1024_a.pub I dont get why it does the .ssh2 thing, which is probably the cause of my issue. Thank you. – Reinier Nov 29 '10 at 15:35
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    Then you pasted it into your account wrong because that works for me and I'm an active member of github – Mike Nov 29 '10 at 15:36
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All keys generated by SSH, Debian or Ubuntu, are SSH2 keys. Also, Debian writes data into ~/.ssh by default, so I'd look into why your machine is going something different -- I'd expect there's some oddity in your SSH config (either global or local) that's causing issues -- possibly both your key location and login failure issues.

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