Sorry everyone, I was being a dumbass and not using the instructions.

I was copying and pasting straight from a vi window which was introducing
line breaks to the key in the window, cannily enough if I use the
instructions it's all fine.

:-)

cat id_rsa.pub | pbcopy



2008/12/4 Tekkub <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> You don't have to generate a second key if you don't want to, just copy the
> keypair over to the new computer.
> Tekkub
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> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 8:00 AM, Matt Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Dilip
>>
>> I had tried that but it appears that the problem was that someone had
>> already used that exact public key in github already, obviously the private
>> part would be different, but you have to create another public/private key
>> pairing.
>>
>> Big thanks to bobmcw on IRC for that.
>>
>>
>>
>> 2008/12/4 Dilip M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>
>>
>>> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 5:02 PM, vanderkerkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Hello everyone
>>> >
>>> > I've created a public git repository in my free account.  I have my
>>> > normal public key from my Imac set up in there, and pushed to the
>>> > repository all hunkey dorey.
>>> >
>>> > I now need to be able to push from my MacBook too.
>>> >
>>> > Do I need to add another public key to do this?  The one from my
>>> > MacBook?
>>> >
>>> > I thought I did.
>>>
>>> yes..
>>>
>>> >
>>> > I'm trying to add it and it's telling me that the key has already been
>>> > taken.  Are we limited to one public key per public repository on a
>>> > free account?
>>>
>>> I too have seen this kind of error, but changing the 'title' of the
>>> key to some other which was not used recently..will add it.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Dilip
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> >
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