How to set SSH access to GitHub
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The steps that you need to set up SSH access to your GitHub account so that you can easily clone the projects over SSH on both the dev machine and the server.
This post tries to capture the steps that I need to set up SSH access to my GitHub account so that I can easily clone the projects over SSH on both my dev machine and the server.
Prerequisites:
- Create a GitHub if you don't have one
5 easy steps to setup SSH access to GitHub
Create a new SSH key if not exists
ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "your@email.here"
View the public SSH key
cat ~/.ssh/<file_name_used_above>.pub
Copy the above contents of the public key to GitHub using below steps
open github
-> settings
-> SSH and GPG keys
-> new SSH key
-> give a name to identify the SSH source
-> paste the public key copied earlier
-> add SSH key
-> github will then verify your password to save the key
Test the SSH connection
ssh -T git@github.com
Now clone projects using SSH
git clone git@github.com:<git_username>/<repo_name>.git