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SSH keys for Github

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Steps

  1. Create folder mkdir /home/user/.ssh/folder if not already exists
  2. ssh-keygen -> Enter folder and file name of key
  3. Change ownership of folder sudo chown -R user:user /home/user/.ssh/folder/keyname
  4. Add key to ssh ssh-add /home/user/.ssh/folder/keyname
  5. Update config nano ~/.ssh/config
Host github.com
  User git
  IdentityFile /path/to/your/custom_key
  1. Copy key.pub to https://github.com/settings/keys

Tip: Above steps applicable for any service or server and if that server needs to get the pub key for SSH access into it, ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/keyname.pub user@ipaddr

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