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MarkKGreenway
MarkKGreenway

Reputation: 8774

SSH-Keygen "no such file or directory"

Trying to Generate a public key for my git. Using Powershell. 

PS>ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "[email protected]"
Generating public/private rsa key pair.
Enter file in which to save the key (//.ssh/id_rsa):
Could not create directory '//.ssh': Read-only file system
Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase):
Enter same passphrase again:
Saving key "//.ssh/id_rsa" failed: No such file or directory

If I give a location for the file and run

ssh -vT [email protected]

It doesn't check the custom location for the public key to use

OpenSSH_7.1p1, OpenSSL 1.0.2d 9 Jul 2015
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: Connecting to github.com [<<ANIPADDRESS>>] port 22.
debug1: Connection established.
debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory
debug1: identity file /.ssh/id_rsa type -1
debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory
debug1: identity file /.ssh/id_rsa-cert type -1
debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory
debug1: identity file /.ssh/id_dsa type -1
debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory
debug1: identity file /.ssh/id_dsa-cert type -1
debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory
debug1: identity file /.ssh/id_ecdsa type -1
debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory
debug1: identity file /.ssh/id_ecdsa-cert type -1
debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory
debug1: identity file /.ssh/id_ed25519 type -1
debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory
debug1: identity file /.ssh/id_ed25519-cert type -1
debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0
debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_7.1
debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version libssh-0.7.0
debug1: no match: libssh-0.7.0
debug1: Authenticating to github.com:22 as 'git'
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT received
debug1: kex: server->client [email protected] <implicit> none
debug1: kex: client->server [email protected] <implicit> none
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_ECDH_REPLY
debug1: Server host key: ssh-rsa SHA256:<<SCAREDTOPUBLISH>>
debug1: Host 'github.com' is known and matches the RSA host key.
debug1: Found key in /.ssh/known_hosts:1
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received
debug1: Roaming not allowed by server
debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_REQUEST sent
debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey
debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
debug1: Trying private key: /.ssh/id_rsa
debug1: Trying private key: /.ssh/id_dsa
debug1: Trying private key: /.ssh/id_ecdsa
debug1: Trying private key: /.ssh/id_ed25519
debug1: No more authentication methods to try.
Permission denied (publickey).

Upvotes: 80

Views: 246916

Answers (7)

nicolas.leblanc
nicolas.leblanc

Reputation: 640

You are getting the error: Saving key "//.ssh/id_rsa" failed: No such file or directory

Seems to me like you need to create folder .ssh

Try mkdir .ssh, and then run ssh-keygen -t rsa again.

Upvotes: 2

janos
janos

Reputation: 124824

The command could not save your key, likely because it was unable to determine your $HOME directory. Specify a file, at a location where you have write access:

ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "[email protected]" -f /path/to/key

This will save your private key in /path/to/key and the public key in /path/to/key.pub. When successful, instead of an error message, you will see something like:

Your identification has been saved in /path/to/key.
Your public key has been saved in /path/to/key.pub.
The key fingerprint is:
76:f7:82:04:1e:64:eb:9c:df:dc:0a:6b:26:73:1b:2c
The key's randomart image is:
+--[ RSA 2048]----+
|        o        |
|       o .       |
|        +        |
|       + +       |
|        S o .    |
|       . = = o   |
|        E * + o  |
|        o.++ o   |
|         *o..    |
+-----------------+

And then, to make ssh look for the file at the custom location, use the -i flag:

ssh -i /path/to/key -vT [email protected]

Alternatively, if you have an authentication agent running, you can add your key to the agent with:

ssh-add /path/to/key

Once your key is stored by the agent, you can simply do:

ssh -T [email protected]

The response should look something like:

Hi USER! You've successfully authenticated, but GitHub does not provide shell access.

And you can go ahead and clone your repository with:

git clone [email protected]:USER/REPO

Upvotes: 104

Tiana987642
Tiana987642

Reputation: 754

For me, the username was wrong :) Can't believe that's simple :(

Upvotes: -2

ali ozkara
ali ozkara

Reputation: 5646

work for me on Mac: ssh-add /Users/your_user_name/.ssh/id_rsa

Upvotes: -2

masafood
masafood

Reputation: 385

i tried this instead of ~/.ssh/whatever_file_name

this code worked for me

ssh-add /Users/<user>/.ssh/id_ed25519

replace <user> with your user folder name...

Upvotes: 4

Skois
Skois

Reputation: 89

This work for me: ssh-add '/home/user/.ssh/id_rsa'

Upvotes: 8

mbomb007
mbomb007

Reputation: 4271

For me, the ssh-keygen command appears to fail only when using cmd:

Your identification has been saved in [...]/.ssh/id_rsa. fdopen [...]/.ssh/id_rsa.pub failed: No such file or directory

The private key is generated, but the public key file is created with 0 bytes.

If I run the command in Git Bash on Windows, it works.

Upvotes: 11

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