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    copied!<p>I can't see to wrap my head creating an ssh key for GitHub. I had it working quite awhile back but I can't figure out what has changed. I've since removed the previous SSH keys from my GitHub account. After following the instructions several times for generating an SSH key (<a href="http://help.github.com/mac-key-setup" rel="noreferrer">http://help.github.com/mac-key-setup</a>) and testing "ssh git@github.com" I get the following; </p> <blockquote> <p>PTY allocation request failed on channel 0 ERROR: Hi...successfully authenticated...GitHub does not provide shell access...Connection to github.com closed.</p> </blockquote> <p>I reviewed the <a href="http://help.github.com/troubleshooting-ssh/" rel="noreferrer">troubleshooting guide</a> and noticed that my ssh directory didn't have a config file. After creating it I'm unsure of what or how to enter the local path on the IdentityFile line. I'm not even sure whether this is necessary in my case? </p> <blockquote> <p>If your github authentication information is different from your machine account information, you’ll need to modify your ssh configuration file.</p> <p>Create or open the file at ~/.ssh/config Add the following lines:</p> </blockquote> <pre><code>Host github.com User git Hostname github.com PreferredAuthentications publickey IdentityFile [local path to private key half of github public key you provided] </code></pre> <blockquote> <p>You may also need to update the permissions on your .ssh folder and its contents. The SSH application will ignore secret files that are too permissive.</p> </blockquote> <pre><code>$ chmod 700 ~/.ssh $ chmod 600 ~/.ssh/* </code></pre> <p>I also ran ssh -v git@github.com the results of which can be seen here <a href="http://gist.github.com/607283" rel="noreferrer">http://gist.github.com/607283</a> nothing different from what I can tell.</p> <p>Any idea what I'm doing wrong? </p>
 

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