Go to your command line. Follow the instructions to generate your SSH key pair. Adding your SSH public key to GitLab To add the SSH public key to GitLab, see Adding an SSH key to your GitLab account. Generating Your SSH Public Key Many Git servers authenticate using SSH public keys. In order to provide a public key, each user in your system must generate one if they don’t already have one. This page describes how to create SSH keys. SSH keys can be used to establish a secure connection with Bitbucket Server for: when you are performing Git operations from your local machine; when another system or process needs access to repositories in Bitbucket Server (for example your build server).
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
- If you’re running Windows 10, the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), and its latest WSL 2 version, support the installation of different Linux distributions, which include the Git and SSH clients. For current versions of Windows, you can also install the Git and SSH clients with Git for Windows.
- Jul 20, 2019 This generates a new private SSH key with rsa encryption and 4096 bits. It also generates a public key from the secret key which you can share around. There will be a new folder and files in your Windows user folder. In general you can create as many keys.
Just follow these 5 steps:
Git Generate Ssh Key Windows
- 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)
Mac computer cannot shut down because software is being installing. 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)
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.
Git Generate Ssh Key Windows 10 Key
Conclusion
I hope this wasn’t too complicated to follow, and also I hope it was helpful to someone!
Generate Ssh Key Github
Cheers!
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Note! This article was revised on Jul 26, 2019. The original article was posted in 2011 by Mladen Lotar.