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Revision as of 16:42, 2 December 2014
, 16:42, 2 December 2014→Add SSH Key
Log in to GitHub at http://github.com and go [https://github.com/settings/ssh here] click on 'Add Ssh Key'. Choose a title. Open your public key in a text editor, web browser, or even ''cat'' command, and then copy and paste the key into the text entry field. Click on ''Save''.
Log in to GitHub at http://github.com and go [https://github.com/settings/ssh here] click on 'Add Ssh Key'. Choose a title. Open your public key in a text editor, web browser, or even ''cat'' command, and then copy and paste the key into the text entry field. Click on ''Save''.
Once you do this, Gitorious trusts SSH connection from your system because your system has the private key, and Gitorious has the public key. You should only need to do this once, unless you change to another system.
Once you do this, GitHub trusts SSH connection from your system because your system has the private key, and GitHub has the public key. You should only need to do this once, unless you change to another system.
(With ssh-keygen you can specify the name of your key file. Using this feature is not a good idea, because we haven't tested it. Keys should generally be located in <tt>~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub</tt> or <tt>~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub</tt>.)
(With ssh-keygen you can specify the name of your key file. Using this feature is not a good idea, because we haven't tested it. Keys should generally be located in <tt>~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub</tt> or <tt>~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub</tt>.)