Question

I am trying to set up git as a first time user and proceeded as in the following tutorials:

Setting up git

and now I am stuck at step 5 so i tried the SSH issues at github
SSH issues.
I have generated all the keys and are placed in C:\Users\Admin.ssh as

Upon trying for

ssh -vT github.com 

I am getting Permission denied error though I have pasted the id_dsa at github.
I have disabled the firewall(was blocking port 22 earlier) and edited config as:

Host github.com
User git
Hostname ssh.github.com
PreferredAuthentications publickey
IdentityFile C:\Users\Admin\.ssh\id_dsa
Port 443 

What wrong am i doing here??

Answer 1

You should SSH to [e-mail]. I.e., the username for SSH is always git, not your GitHub username.

You also should have pasted id_dsa.pub into GitHub. You should really generate new keys, since now your private key has been compromised.