REM | This script creates a shortcut for auto-loading a PPK (key) in | Super User: How to make a shortcut from CMD?. This idea was inspired by an answer to this question: You can place a shortcut in your startup directory to auto-load your key each time you log into your Windows account. You should be able to push and pull from your remote host without entering a password each time.
GitHub: (or via ssh-agent ssh -Tv BitBucket: (or via ssh-agent ssh -Tv Git Bash. Open Putty and connect to test your connection via SSH and add the server's key as a known host. Note: Once Pageant has started, you can click on its icon in the system tray located in the taskbar, next to the time, on the right. Open Pageant and load the ppk key located at ~/.ssh/id_rsa.ppk. GIT_SSH: C:\Program Files (x86)\PuTTY\plink.exeĪppend the Git binary directory to the system path. In the System Properties window, click the Advanced tab.Īdd the following System variables (if not already set):. In Control Panel, navigate to the System view. Note: If you have already installed Git, you can just run the installer again and set Plink to be your default SSH application. You should now have the following keys in your ~/.ssh directory: Save the imported key via the Save private key button as ~/.ssh/id_rsa.ppk. In PuTTYgen, import your existing ~/.ssh/id_rsa (private) key, via Conversions → Import key. More information on how to do this can be found on the official Generating SSH keys article. Using the Git Bash, use ssh-keygen to generate a pair of RSA public/private keys. Install putty.zip which is available at the PuTTY Download Page or you can download individually.Ī command-line interface to the PuTTY back ends.Īn SSH authentication agent for PuTTY, PSCP, PSFTP, and Plink. I have put together a step-by-step guide to get Git setup for windows using PuTTY's Plink application for SSH authentication. In effect, it seems that any attempt to use keys generated by PuTTY is unsucessful.Īny insight on what's preventing this from working based on the logs? Thanks in advance. However, I cannot add those keys into pageant, which is a huge pain. 
What does work is generating keys from within Git Bash.
Everything is identical as far as I can tell. I should note that I had this exact setup working on a previous Windows 7 install. I've tried: chmod 700 ~/.ssh chmod 600 ~/.ssh/* from within Git Bash but there was no effect as verified by ls -l. Note that I'm being prompted for the pass-phrase despite it being successfully loaded into pageant.
Make sure github fingerprint is added to know_hosts by connecting to in PuTTY and accepting fingerprintĮdit ~/.ssh/config to read: Host. Use (Tortoise)Plink pointed to correct plink.exe. Install msysgit 1.7.8 with the following options:. Add public key for pasting into OpenSSH authorized_keys to github account. Create public/private key pair with puttygen.exe. On an otherwise pristine Windows 7 Enterprise install:
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