“Key is invalid” message on GitHub

Question

I have generated SSH keys for a new server installation according to the procedure outlined here. However, when I copy the contents of id_rsa.pub to my keys list on

Answer 1

It's common issue we face while generating the key. While the SSH generating, we will get two diff files one is id_rsa and id_rsa.pub. here the file with pub extension is the public key holder file. You must copy the content from this file and add to the Github.

NOTES: 1. public key file content starts with 'SSH-RSA' 2. end with your Github email id. ex: if you registered Github with @gmail.com then the pub file has the specified email id at the last