Mac OS , Error when generating an SSH key with Git: “no such file”

Question

I want to work with GitHub and multiple accounts. I am following this tutorial, I need to generate a unique SSH key for our second GitHub account and meet a problem:

Saving key "~/.ssh/id_rsa_nettuts" failed: No such file or directory

There is a a very similar answer, while the answers are all windows and do not work.

The code is as following:

$ ls                 
id_rsa      id_rsa.pub  id_rsa_nettuts  known_hosts
$ ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "[email protected]"
Generating public/private rsa key pair.
Enter file in which to save the key (/Users/hou/.ssh/id_rsa): ~/.ssh/id_rsa_nettuts
Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase): 
Enter same passphrase again: 
Saving key "~/.ssh/id_rsa_nettuts" failed: No such file or directory
$

Many Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

hope you are inside .ssh dir . When you are entering key name , just enter the file name instead of path. EX:

ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "[email protected]"
Generating public/private rsa key pair.
Enter file in which to save the key (/home/hp/.ssh/id_rsa): id_rsa_netus
Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase): 
Enter same passphrase again: