GitHub SSH Windows 10 WSL2

GitHub-SSH.md

Add SSH to GitHub

Why another tutorial about SSH on Windows 10 for GitHub ?!

Because EVEN official documentation is messy (At least for me)

So I make a cheatsheet for myself and share it for you

I don't write to much info, You know what are these already

So get back to work :happy:

Requirements

• Windows 10 (Obviously)

  I have 20H2

• SSH

  SSH Agent comes with Windows by default (Named OpenSSH Authentication Agent)

• Terminal

  (I recommend Windows Terminal)

• Internet connection (Again Obviously)

• WSL2 Installed and functional

Existing SSH

First we check Windows drive not WSL2

Windows Drive C

C:\Users[USERNAME].ssh

Note

WSL2 SSH folder is not same as Windows Drive C SSH folder

Directory contain

• id_rsa
• id_rsa.pub

Or

• id_ed25519
• id_ed25519.pub

If you have these copy this file to WSL2 SSH folder in ~/.ssh

WSL2 Location

/home/USERNAME/.ssh

Generate SSH Keys

Don't talk just do commands

RSA

ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "Your EMAIL"

ED25519

ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "Your EMAIL"

This will generate those file I mentioned earlier above

If you run this command in powershell then they are in Drive C

If not, then you probably run them in WSL2 so they are ~/.ssh

Just copy them over

Be sure they are same files in both drive

Permission in WSL2

chmod 600 ~/.ssh/id_ed25519

Add to SSH Agent

ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_ed25519

ONLY COMMANDS

ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "Your EMAIL"

ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "Your EMAIL"

chmod 600 ~/.ssh/id_ed25519

chmod 600 ~/.ssh/id_rsa

sudo apt install keychain

eval keychain --eval --agents ssh ~/.ssh/id_ed25519

eval keychain --eval --agents ssh ~/.ssh/id_rsa

stat -c "%a %n" id_ed25519

stat -c "%a %n" id_rsa

ssh -vT git@github.com

eval $(ssh-agent -s)

ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_ed25519

ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_ed25519