From 2575b8a597d3febb0088d02fb64214c3dbd5fd57 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Cameron McEfee Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 10:23:11 -0700 Subject: bring documentation in line with new styles --- _posts/2009-06-17-troubleshooting-ssh.textile | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to '_posts/2009-06-17-troubleshooting-ssh.textile') diff --git a/_posts/2009-06-17-troubleshooting-ssh.textile b/_posts/2009-06-17-troubleshooting-ssh.textile index 8900a78..7e58cf8 100644 --- a/_posts/2009-06-17-troubleshooting-ssh.textile +++ b/_posts/2009-06-17-troubleshooting-ssh.textile @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ categories: troubleshooting popular main_category: troubleshooting --- -This guide contains the solutions to the most common SSH connection issues encountered on GitHub +

This guide contains the solutions to the most common SSH connection issues encountered on GitHub.

The first step to testing your connection is to run ssh git@github.com. If your key works, you should get a success message:
$ ssh git@github.com
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ Here we've renamed our keypair to @~/.ssh/id_rsa@.  SSH finds the key and offers
 
 h2. Issues when using sudo
 
-p((. _You shouldn't run @sudo git@ unless you have a very good reason.  If you don't know if you have a good reason to use sudo, it's likely that you do not have one._
+

You shouldn't run @sudo git@ unless you have a very good reason. If you don't know if you have a good reason to use sudo, it's likely that you do not have one.

If you are using sudo with git commands (e.g. using sudo git clone because you are deploying to a root-owned folder), ensure that you also generated the key using sudo. Otherwise, you will have generated a key for your current user, but when you are doing sudo git, you are actually the root user - thus, the keys will not match. -- cgit v1.3.1