ssh-keygen command not found when setting up Git on Windows

Question

I'm following the steps here. I'm on step 3 of Set Up SSH Keys.

When I type in:

ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "myemailhere"

I get the response:

ssh-keygen: command not found

What is this supposed to mean? I'm using the portable version of Git, I've got open bash.exe from inside the bin.

Solution 1

it would appear that you don't have ssh installed on your computer. you will need an ssh client, since it appears you on using windows you can use http://cygwin.com/ and it will come with one, I don't know about a portable version of ssh, though..

Solution 2

The tutorial on GitHub is wrong. The correct one is ssh-keygen -t rsa -C

I also had this problem.

Comments

[user1004985]

I think it is ssh-keygen.exe

[Nalin Savaliya]

It worked like charm !