github: No supported authentication methods available

Question

i use github and have successfully added and synched files on my laptop in the past.

as of recent i started getting \"PuTTY Fatal Error: Disconnected: No su

Answer 1

On my Windows 7 machine running Github for Windows using git version 1.8.3.msysgit.0. I found that updating my system environment variable GIT_SSH to C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin\ssh.exe seemed to do the trick. This also fixed my issue with contacting OpenShift's git repo.