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Scott Persinger edited this page Jul 2, 2014 · 3 revisions

Running Windows 7 VM under VMWare

  • Downloaded and installed heroku-toolbelt.exe

  • Instead of using toolbelt generated key, I generated a key with "puttygen" from Putty.

  • heroku keys:add doesn't work. "The key was invalid" Key looks like this: ---- BEGIN SSH2 PUBLIC KEY ---- Comment: "rsa-key-20140702" AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABJQAAAQEAukmSsEc1eozc7isUEyDPw3RSU8RAYcBnQ249 TD/Fv9hTuNE7zHeFaePZavf+6LPmPrkDhBinankKe7P8/XiwyhQh9oQydIwTxPQi SvI/tXbata9NT9G0AXldnxpmPfg5elHv6/lX1xR/DYwgjkc7hBex/ToNgho8iHht uBl8jmdLTWrgeHpVWUhFpLz79QBTB5c5SXJNXUMv+bRLwBBF7eQiAQpdKZDDxOvj 4+aDUvFOakMLUlgGwyHEw5dytWeigSbPfU1j2HlomjZiBIcXdITJML525UrDQSPD 7pwsD/ElWTi4FGcxGwwjEpU45Dc8GMxQxJa06J6uWIOtbb6W8Q== ---- END SSH2 PUBLIC KEY ----

  • Tried to use heroku keys:add to generate a new key, it fails with "ssh-keygen" not recognized. I'm not running cygwin, so this isn't too surprising.

  • Installed OpenSSH for Windows from http://sourceforge.net/projects/sshwindows/?source=dlp. Now ssh-keygen is available, and now heroku keys:add works. The key it generated looks like: ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABIwAAAIEAvVpytj37UYjOcKXnk81zTnvRj2S4j1yDRfrP9f0q7sxt KTPiCSDStgPS7mgKZ8UzOKsRgxcJblgDKKJzZju1y8uDN3io7dFFluLvnsvKx75TLxOxlwiQG921r3Zx qpQQ5NU3frTwqs6DruszHSNTjXyb3rqQB7XeJNzm0uSiBds= IEUser@IE10Win7

    basically the 1 line version.

  • Ah, now went back to puttygen and hand-copied the "OpenSSH compatible" key text into Notepad and saved. This one works with heroku keys:add.

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