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Hi there! This post will be pretty straightforward and will cover Windows, Mac, and Linux, so if you don’t know how to do it already, read on.
Windows
Just follow these 5 steps:
- Go to this address, and download Git for Windows, after the download install it with default settings
- Open Git Bash that you just installed (Start->All Programs->Git->Git Bash)
- Type in the following: ssh-keygen -t rsa (when prompted, enter password, key name can stay the same)
- Open file your_home_directory/.ssh/id_rsa.pub with your favorite text editor, and copy contents to your Git repository’s keys field (GitHub, beanstalk, or any other repository provider), under your account.
- Be sure that you don’t copy any whitespace while copying public key’s content (id_rsa.pub)
Create an SSH key. From Tools, select Create or Import SSH Keys. From the PuTTY Key Generator dialog, click the Generate button. As the SSH key generates, hover your mouse over the blank area in the dialog. It may take a minute or two. When SSH key generation is complete, you see the public key and a few other fields. Generating a new SSH key. Open Terminal Terminal Git Bash the terminal. Paste the text below, substituting in your GitHub Enterprise email address. $ ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C '[email protected]' This creates a new ssh key, using the provided email as a label. Generating public/private rsa key pair. Sep 26, 2019 After you copy the SSH key to the clipboard, return to your account page. Choose to Import Public Key and paste your SSH key into the Public Key field. In the Key Name field, provide a name for the key. Note: although providing a key name is optional, it is a best practice for ease of managing multiple SSH keys. First things to install on a new Mac OSX WIP. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets. Skip to content. All gists Back to GitHub. SSH Key Generation.
Note: your_home_directory is either C:Usersyour_username (on Windows Vista / 7 / 8 / 10), or C:Documents and Settingsyour_username (on Windows XP)
Mac
Follow these 5 steps:
- Start the terminal
- Navigate to your home directory by typing: cd ~/
- Execute the following command: ssh-keygen -t rsa (when prompted, enter password, key name can stay the same)
- Open the file you’ve just created ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub with your favorite text editor, and copy contents to your Git repository’s keys field (GitHub, beanstalk, or any other repository provider), under your account.
- Be sure that you don’t copy any whitespace while copying public key’s content (id_rsa.pub)
Linux (Ubuntu)
Git Ssh Key Generation Mac
Follow these 5 steps:
- Open console
- cd ~
- ssh-keygen -t rsa (when prompted, enter password, key name can stay the same)
- open file /home/your_username/.ssh/id_rsa.pub with your favorite text editor, and copy contents to your Git repository’s keys field (GitHub, beanstalk, or any other repository provider), under your account.
- Be sure that you don’t copy any whitespace while copying public key’s content (id_rsa.pub)
Additional info
When you create private/public SSH keys on your machine (that’s what you did in the above steps), it’s not enough. You need to give your public key to the repository in order to pair the Git server with your local machine (that’d be steps 4. and 5. above).
Most of the popular repositories will give you web interface access to the application, and here’s how it looks like on Github:
After this step, you’re ready to start using Git.
After this step, you’re ready to start using Git.
Conclusion
![Github gen ssh key Github gen ssh key](/uploads/1/2/6/1/126140199/874692660.png)
Github Ssh Key Generation Mac Computer
I hope this wasn’t too complicated to follow, and also I hope it was helpful to someone!
Cheers!
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Note! This article was revised on Jul 26, 2019. The original article was posted in 2011 by Mladen Lotar.