On May 24, 10:50 am, Lee Hambley <[email protected]> wrote: > > 20 pages of documentation for a key - are you kidding? > > No. > > Keys are valuable - probably more valuable than the keys you have in real > life depending what project you are working on - the better you understand > that, and how keys work - the better you will be at your job. >
Huh. I've never used ssh keys on a job. I'm probably going to need this information maybe once every two years and at that rate I'm worried that I'll lose my understanding. I can't remember which tutorial got me the result I wanted last time, so I can't easily compare it to anything. Is the documentation covering Windows? It doesn't seem to be. Quote: While I try to keep the HOWTO as generic and inter-operable as possible, it could happen that I write an example that is not working on your *NIX, please let me know. I'm not confident in my ability to learn *NIX concepts and then relate those to how I use Windows. I've never been good at using unix. I have a Github account and Git on my machine that I installed using msysgit. I don't have the context menus "Git Gui Here" or "Git Bash Here" -- for some reason msysgit installer never prompted me for those. I searched around and noticed that another had that problem. This may be totally irrelevant -- or not. http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/issues/detail?id=231 I'm trying to recall how I got it running last time and I think it was a page on Github website that explained keys for Windows. > Short answer: Generate and distribute a new one. > Got it. I have puttygen and pageant. I think there was a tutorial on Github for how to tell git what the key is and tell github what the key (or keys?) are. Thanks for the help -- I'm trying not to whine -- I just don't understand this stuff well. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GitHub" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/github?hl=en.
