git 1.7.3 using windonws + putty + ssh problem

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I am following this guide however on installing git 1.7.3 there is no installation screen available for me to choose plink.exe as my ssh execuitable.

As according to this post I have added a GIT_SSH enviromental variable pointing where my plink.exe is.

I followed the guide and used puttygen.exe to generate by private and public key and placed my public key on to our projectlockers website. I also saved my private key. I also loaded up my private key into pagent.exe.

I then tried using git clone to get the project using ssh but it unfortunately asked for a password, indicating that the ssh auth. had not worked.

Have I linked up git correctly with my public and private ssh keys?

Many thanks for your help!

binarycreations

Posted 2010-10-05T09:44:59.507

Reputation: 125

It should work !!! check whether plink.exe is in your system path or not. – shahjapan – 2010-10-05T10:49:12.023

1echo $GIT_SSH$ C:\Program Files\Putty\plink.exe – binarycreations – 2010-10-05T14:52:03.487

Answers

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I just run into this trouble last night and the solution that worked for me was:

  • Putty has to be installed before Git
  • Putty needs at least one session created and saved (it will not work without that)
  • Install Git again and the screen for selecting the ssh client (Openssh or Plink) should appear.

jhcaiced

Posted 2010-10-05T09:44:59.507

Reputation: 1 488

1It has been a long time since this post, I did manage to get it working in the end and I did something similar to what you described. – binarycreations – 2011-10-13T09:15:08.223

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