title: How to fix Permission denied (publickey) in Windows Command Prompt
body: <p>When I try to push to a repo on Github from Windows Command Prompt I get the error <strong>Permission denied (public key)</strong>. Troubleshooting via the instructions from <a href="http://help.github.com/ssh-issues/" rel="nofollow">ssh-issues</a> reveals that ssh cannot find any of the files it needs in my <code>.ssh</code>:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&gt;ssh -vT git@github.com
  OpenSSH_4.6p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8e 23 Feb 2007
  debug1: Connecting to github.com [192.30.253.113] port 22.
  debug1: Connection established.
  debug1: identity file /.ssh/identity type -1
  debug1: identity file /.ssh/id_rsa type -1
  debug1: identity file /.ssh/id_dsa type -1
  debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version libssh-0.7.0
  debug1: no match: libssh-0.7.0
  debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0
  debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_4.6
  debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent
  debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT received
  debug1: kex: server-&gt;client aes128-cbc hmac-sha1 none
  debug1: kex: client-&gt;server aes128-cbc hmac-sha1 none
  debug1: sending SSH2_MSG_KEXDH_INIT
  debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEXDH_REPLY
  debug1: Host 'github.com' is known and matches the RSA host key.
  debug1: Found key in /.ssh/known_hosts:1
  debug1: ssh_rsa_verify: signature correct
  debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent
  debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS
  debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received
  debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_REQUEST sent
  debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received
  debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey
  debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
  debug1: Trying private key: /.ssh/identity
  debug1: Trying private key: /.ssh/id_rsa
  debug1: Trying private key: /.ssh/id_dsa
  debug1: No more authentication methods to try.
  Permission denied (publickey).
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The 3 files that it cannot find are in my .ssh file along with a config file to set the identity. I know the files exist and it's working because this works perfectly in GitBash. Furthermore what is the issue with doing this in cmd, is there some problem with OpenSSH or something? How do I fix this?</p>
  
  <p><strong>NOTE: I want to get this working in cmd I do not want to use GitBash or CYGWIN!</strong></p>