Can't Clone an Assembla repo with smartgit in Ubuntu.

Question

I have the newest ubuntu, java, and installations. Smartgit is installed correctly but I can't figure out how to generate a proper OpenSSH key pair with ubuntu. I tried using the ssh-keygen -t dsa command and It worked on assembla for my profile. Problem is smart git wont accept the private pair because it is not OpenSSH. I downloaded puttygen and I created an OpenSSH key but assembla wont accept the public version. Anyone have any advice?

Answer 1

You should only be uploading your public key to Assembla, in a standard format:

ssh-key_format key label

Where ssh-key_format should be either ssh-dss or ssh-rsa. The key is your public key - an alphanumeric string with some other characters. The label is a name usually derived from your user and machine and may look like user@machine There is a blank space between each of the three fields.

Your putty output probably looks like this:

PuTTY-User-Key-File-2: ssh-dss
Encryption: none
Comment: dsa-key-20120917
Public-Lines: 10
PUBLIC_KEY
Private-Lines: 1
PRIVATE_KEY
Private-MAC: MAC_ADDRESS

(I replaced the sensitive data with CAPITALIZATION)

You just need to take the beginning (ssh-dss or ssh-rsa) then your PUBLIC_KEY then make ups some label to create a new public key file - use emacs or vim on your computer and save it as id_dsa.pub or id_rsa.pub and upload it to Assembla - should work just fine.