GitHub: Using SSH

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1. Ensure git is installed by running git -v
2. Using Powershell change the working directory to .ssh
   • cd C:\users\$env:USERNAME\.ssh\
3. Launch Git Bash
   • bash
4. Generate ssh key
   • Ed25519
     • ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "[email protected]"
   • RSA
     • ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "[email protected]"
5. For GitHub, set a passphrase. From my tests it doesn't appear to work without one.
   
6. Verify file was created with ls.
7. Initiate ssh-agent.
   • eval "$(ssh-agent -s)"
8. Add ssh key to agent.
   • ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa
9. Copy the key to the clipboard.
   • clip < ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
10. Sign into GitHub.
11. Go to settings
    
12. Select SSH and GPG keys
    
13. New SSH key

    

14. Give the key a title, paste the key in the Key field, and click Add SSH key.

    

15. Back in bash test the connection
    • ssh -T [email protected]
16. Upon successful output we are finished.