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.
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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 as you want.
Windows
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)
Generate Ssh Key Git Windows 10
Linux (Ubuntu)
Generate Ssh Key Git Windows
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
![Git generate new ssh key windows Git generate new ssh key windows](https://cdn.tutsplus.com/net/uploads/legacy/2081_gitwin/ssh-keys.jpg)
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.
Conclusion
Generate Ssh Key Windows Git Cmd
I hope this wasn’t too complicated to follow, and also I hope it was helpful to someone!
![Windows Windows](https://devconnected.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/ssh-keygen.png)
Cheers!
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Git Add Ssh Key
Note! This article was revised on Jul 26, 2019. The original article was posted in 2011 by Mladen Lotar.