Question

Heroku refuses to accept my public key which I generated using puttygen. I tried looking for answers using Google, however the solution of copying the key rather than saving it through puttygen did not solve my issue.

L:\>heroku keys:add "[path]\.ssh\id_rsa.pub"
Uploading ssh public key [path]\.ssh\id_rsa.pub
Enter your Heroku credentials.
Email: [email]
Password:
Uploading ssh public key [path]\.ssh\id_rsa.pub
 !   Contents Invalid public key

I’ve tried generating several key pairs in case just one was unacceptable and none of them have worked.

Answer 1

you might try doing a cd to the .ssh directory, and just doing
heroku keys:add id_rsa.pub

check the timestamp of the key to make sure that it is the one you just created, the contents of the file should look something like:

ssh-rsa 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 [e-mail]