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Make IntelliJ IDEA public key authentication in Windows

I am an Eclipse user who is evaluating the switch to IntelliJ IDEA. I am currently testing IDEA 10.0.2. My operating system is Windows.

When working with Git over SSH, IDEA always asks for my password. I cannot find any parameter in the settings to use public key authentication. By this post, my key is in the %USERPROFILE%\.ssh directory, and my HOME variable points to the same directory as USERPROFILE .

I don’t know what I am doing wrong, and Google did not give any results for more information. Does anyone know how to do public key authentication for IDEA?

EDIT . My key is password protected.

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git intellij-idea ssh public-key
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If your git command line uses the auth public key, then the same should work with IDEA. In VCS IDEA settings, the SSH implementation is switched from IDEA ssh to native , so it uses the same SSH as when running the git command line.

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In the latest version [as of April 29, 2019] there is no option for SSH executable to switch the SSH implementation. So, I followed these steps in Windows 10:

  1. Create an ssh key pair (it can be created on Linux and copied to a Windows computer)
  2. Copy the contents of the SSH public key to Settings GitHub -> SSH and GPG keys New SSH key
  3. Copy the private key to C:\Users\<your-user-name>\.ssh\
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