I'm trying to use git on a Mac (I'm a Mac newbie.) I obviously have to load my private key. On my Windows machine I just use pageant and msysgit. How do I load my private key into git on the Mac?
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Git has a good article on creating and using your private keys here:
localshred
2009-08-20 14:44:00
How do I transfer my .ppk private key to the Mac? (It was created by putty.)
cool-RR
2009-08-20 15:01:04
You could scp it or something, but .ppk files aren't standardized for unix private/public key encryption.
localshred
2009-08-20 15:20:35
putty has a utility to convert ppk keys to other formats. I forget what it's name was but you can find it from the same page as putty is downloaded from.
Jeremy Wall
2009-08-21 03:19:22
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I'd say just create a new key. If you're posting to github it's no big deal to push two public keys up, and same for putting it up on another server - it's just another entry in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys.
The github guide localshred pointed to should have all the directions you'd need.
Jamie Macey
2009-08-20 19:25:46