“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

Just for those looking in the future, another common issue is that word-wrapping. For example, if you run cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub it could wrap lines, thus adding extra \ characters at each line break. Remove these and your key should work fine.