GitHub SSH Key

In this short How-To article, we will generate an ssh key for accessing GitHub from a Linux device.

Generate SSH Key

ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "your@email.com"

Select the location where the key will be stored or leave empty for selecting the default location (~/.ssh/id_ed25519). Enter a passphrase to protect the key or leave the field empty to proceed without a passphrase.

Add SSH Key to SSH Agent

eval "$(ssh-agent -s)"
ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_ed25519

Add SSH Key to GitHub

1. Navigate to https://github.com/settings/keys
2. Click New SSH key
3. Choose a Title for the SSH key and paste the content from ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub to the field of the key.
4. Click Add SSH key