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How To Add an SSH Key to GitHub

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When working with Git and GitHub, you can collaborate with HTTPS or SSH. Today, we will provide a tutorial on how you lot can deploy an SSH central to your GitHub repository.

Fix an SSH Key

You lot can generate an SSH key by running the ssh-keygen procedure on your computer. You will need to think where yous have saved the generated public and individual RSA primal pair. The steps for generating a new SSH primal are:

Open up the Git bash.
Copy-paste the following command past entering your GitHub email address:

            $ ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "[e-mail protected]"

Note: If you are using a legacy system that doesn't support the Ed25519 algorithm, utilise:

            $ ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "[email protected]"

This creates a new SSH fundamental using the provided e-mail as a label.

            > Generating public/private ed25519 primal pair.

Accept the default file location when you are prompted to "Enter a file in which to save the key":

            > Enter a file in which to relieve the central (/c/Users/you/.ssh/id_ed25519):[Press enter]

So you will be asked to enter a passphrase. You can leave it empty. You lot can accept a wait at passphrases in the documentation.

            > Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase): [Blazon a passphrase]              
> Enter aforementioned passphrase again: [Blazon passphrase again]

Checking for Existing SSH Keys

Before you generate an SSH key, you should check if y'all already take an existing SSH key. You lot tin easily bank check for existing SSH keys by using the Git fustigate and entering the following control that lists the files in the .ssh directory:

            ls -al ~/.ssh

By default, the filenames of the public keys are one of the post-obit:

            id_rsa.pub id_ecdsa.pub id_ed25519.pub

As you tin can come across, I have an id_rsa.pub file.

Adding Your SSH Fundamental to the ssh-amanuensis

Yous can start the ssh-amanuensis in the background past typing:

            $ eval `ssh-agent -s`

And then you can add together the private central file that you accept generated by typing:

            $ ssh-add together ~/.ssh/id_rsa

Adding the SSH Key to Your GitHub

You have to re-create the SSH public primal. There are two options. 1 option is to employ the cat command and copy it from the final:

            $ cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

The other option is to copy it to your clipboard by typing:

            $ clip < ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

Then, get to your repository that you want to work on and click on "Settings":

And then go to the "Deploy keys":

Then click "Add deploy key":

In the title section, you lot can write whatsoever you want. In the key section, paste your public key, tick the "Allow write access" checkbox, and click "Add fundamental." You are set!

Using Multiple Repositories

If you are using multiple repositories on i server, you will need to generate a dedicated key pair for each ane. You can't reuse a deploy primal for multiple repositories.

In the server's SSH configuration file (unremarkably ~/.ssh/config), add an alias entry for each repository. For example:

            Host github.com-repo-0
              Hostname github.com
              IdentityFile=/home/user/.ssh/repo-0_deploy_keyHost github.com-repo-ane
                Hostname github.com
                IdentityFile=/home/user/.ssh/repo-1_deploy_key

Host github.com-repo-0 is the repository'southward alias.
Hostname github.com configures the hostname to apply with the alias.
IdentityFile=/dwelling house/user/.ssh/repo-0_deploy_key assigns a private key to the alias.

You can then use the hostname's allonym to interact with the repository using SSH, which will use the unique deploy primal assigned to that alias. For example:

            $ git clone[e-mail protected]:Possessor/repo-i.git

In case y'all do not have a config file, you tin generate a new one as explained on Stack Overflow. Also, this mail may be helpful.