Git - Authentification failed

Question

I'm completely new at git, and having had prior knowledge with putty decided to set it up to use that.

At first it came up with an error I traced back (using google) to me not connecting via plink to the server to cache it.

I was able to connect via plink to the git repository I need to clone, but doing the "git clone x y" comes up with an authentication error?

I assume there's something big I'm missing here :(

Answer 1

Assuming you're using ssh pubkey authentication, did you remember to set up your key properly? If you're using the PuTTY plink, you probably need to add your keypair to PageAnt; if you're using a cygwin one, you might need to put the key files in your ~/.ssh/ directory.