SSH

Published: 2023-11-06
Updated: 2024-04-04

Creating SSH Key (Linux) 🔗

Source: https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/connecting-to-github-with-ssh

• Open a terminal
• ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C ""
• Save to the default location
• Enter and confirm a suitable passphrase
• Go to GitHub new SSH key page
  • Title is not important it’s more like a note to remember where they key is used. So you could use for example the last octet of the server’s IP.
  • Leave Key type on Authentication Key
  • For Key copy the value from the public key you just generated
    • cat ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub
    • Copy the line that is output into the text box on GitHub
  • Click Add SSH Key