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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
Oct 14, 2019 Setup SSH Authentication for Git Bash on Windows Prepararation. Create a folder at the root of your user home folder (Example: C:/Users/uname/) called.ssh. Create the following files if they do not already exist (paths begin from the root of your user home folder):.ssh/config.bashprofile.bashrc; Create a New SSH Key.
Jul 25, 2019 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). Setup Steps for SSH Connections to AWS CodeCommit Repositories on Windows. Install Git; SSH and Windows: Set Up the Public and Private Keys for Git and CodeCommit; Step 4: Connect to the CodeCommit Console and Clone the Repository. $ ssh-keygen Generating public/private rsa key pair. In order to generate a SSH key on Debian, you are going to need the ssh-keygen tool. SSH can also be used in order to setup SSH key-based authentication on Git. Securing your server with SSH keys is a very crucial step if you want to prevent easy yet very effective attacks to be run against your server. How To Install Docker on Windows. After you have successfully installed Git on Windows, you’ll need to provide secure communication with your Git repositories by creating and installing SSH keys. Installing SSH keys on Windows. To access your Git repositories you will need to create and install SSH keys. You can do this in two ways: by using OpenSSH (generating SSH keys with ssh-keygen which comes with Git) by using PuTTY (free Telnet and SSH client) OpenSSH and PuTTY are free implementations of Telnet and SSH for Windows. Generating a new SSH key. Open Terminal Terminal Git Bash. Paste the text below, substituting in your GitHub 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.
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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)
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.
After this step, you’re ready to start using Git.
Conclusion
I hope this wasn’t too complicated to follow, and also I hope it was helpful to someone!
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Cheers!
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Note! This article was revised on Jul 26, 2019. The original article was posted in 2011 by Mladen Lotar.