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Reputation: 5458

How can I use SSH remotes with GitHub Desktop?

I am using GitHub Desktop on Windows 10. I initially cloned a repo using its HTTPS URL, but now our organisation have advised that we must use the SSH URL instead. So I have changed this over.

I have also copied the contents of my public SSH key (id_rsa.pub) in to my GitHub account. My SSH key is protected by a passphrase.

Now when I try to do to a sync in GitHub Desktop I get the following error:

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In Git Bash it works fine (it asks me for my passphrase before each pull/push though). Any idea what I need to do to make this work?

Upvotes: 36

Views: 65791

Answers (7)

Jose Lian
Jose Lian

Reputation: 1

For vs 2019 edit:

  1. Click right in project and select propertie.
  2. Edit ProtectionLevel.
  3. Open project (no view the message error).
  4. Click right in space and select propertie and edit ProtectionLevel. enter image description here

Upvotes: 0

205 lng
205 lng

Reputation: 71

solved the problem by unticking the system OpenSSH setting.

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Upvotes: 6

pleshy
pleshy

Reputation: 1528

I had this issue but was related to my Docker container ssh keys weren't in my windows .ssh/ folder.

%userprofile%.ssh/

Upvotes: 0

VonC
VonC

Reputation: 1330102

As more recently seen in "Permission failure cloning in Git in Windows", try and launch GitHub Desktop after:
(warning: read comments first)

git config --global core.sshCommand "'C:\Windows\System32\OpenSSH\ssh.exe'"

That will ensure GitHub Desktop to use the right OpenSSH ssh.exe, instead of an internal one, as seen in desktop/desktop issue 5641.

If Git bash does not work properly after that, you can either:

  • revert the configuration:

    git config --global --unset core.sshCommand

  • or use the Git for Windows SSH

    git config --global core.sshCommand "'C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin\ssh.exe'"

If C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin\ is already in your %PATH%, you don't even need that configuration: the ssh.exe from Git For Windows would be the one selected by default.

Upvotes: 14

beginner_
beginner_

Reputation: 7632

I had this issue now as well. SSH was working fine in git-bash with ssh-agent and so forth.

But if you use TortoiseGit, for me the easiest was to use TortoiseGitPlink.exe globally as ssh-client, from TortoiseGit, git-bash and github desktop:

git config --global core.sshCommand "'C:\Program Files\TortoiseGit\bin\TortoiseGitPlink.exe'"

This will by default use Pageant to cache your passphrase for current session. After setting this, GitHub Desktop immediately started working again with ssh repos.

Upvotes: 0

Tony
Tony

Reputation: 21

After searching and trying to use ssh-agent unsuccessfully, I found if you start github desktop using a git bash shell, it will prompt you for a passphrase. I added an alias to my .bash_profile to make starting github desktop easy.

eval C:/Users/labrat/AppData/Local/GitHubDesktop/GitHubDesktop.exe

I also have my git core.sshCommand set to this, which works for both git bash and github desktop:

git config core.sshCommand "'C:\\Program Files\\Git\\usr\\bin\\ssh.exe' -i C:/Home/.ssh/id_rsa_name"

Upvotes: 2

UnsafeUser
UnsafeUser

Reputation: 33

I was able to get it working by creating an ssh config file with the content similar to what is provided in this gist:

https://gist.github.com/JoaquimLey/e6049a12c8fd2923611802384cd2fb4a

The minimal content I needed to get it working was

Host github.com
    IdentityFile /c/Users/username/.ssh/id_github

When cloning the repository I had to use the URL option because the Github.com tab will use the HTTPS url.

Upvotes: 2

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