up vote 1 down vote favorite
share [g+] share [fb]

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!

link|improve this question
It should work !!! check whether plink.exe is in your system path or not. – shahjapan Oct 5 '10 at 10:49
1  
echo $GIT_SSH$ C:\Program Files\Putty\plink.exe – Graham Oct 5 '10 at 14:52
feedback

1 Answer

up vote 0 down vote accepted

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.
link|improve this answer
It 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. – Graham Oct 13 '11 at 9:15
feedback

Your Answer

 
or
required, but never shown
discard

Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged or ask your own question.