- Create a folder at the root of your user home folder
(Example:
C:/Users/username/
) called.ssh
.
You can run something like:mkdir -p ~/.ssh
- Create the following files if they do not already
exist (paths begin from the root of your user home
folder):
touch ~/.ssh/config
touch ~/.bash_profile
touch ~/.bashrc
Follow the steps in the section named "Generating a new SSH Key" found in the following documentation from GitHub: Generating a new SSH key and adding it to the ssh-agent
You can use your favorite text editor: nano, vim, subl, atom, code
For example, run code ~/.ssh/config
Then, add the following lines to .ssh/config
which should be found
in the root of your user home folder:
AddKeysToAgent yes
Host github.com
Hostname github.com
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa
Run your editor, e.g. code ~/.bash_profile
and add the following lines:
test -f ~/.profile && . ~/.profile
test -f ~/.bashrc && . ~/.bashrc
Run your editor, e.g. code ~/.bashrc
and add the following snippet:
# Start SSH Agent
#----------------------------
SSH_ENV="$HOME/.ssh/environment"
function run_ssh_env {
. "${SSH_ENV}" > /dev/null
}
function start_ssh_agent {
echo "Initializing new SSH agent..."
ssh-agent | sed 's/^echo/#echo/' > "${SSH_ENV}"
echo "succeeded"
chmod 600 "${SSH_ENV}"
run_ssh_env;
ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa;
}
if [ -f "${SSH_ENV}" ]; then
run_ssh_env;
ps -ef | grep ${SSH_AGENT_PID} | grep ssh-agent$ > /dev/null || {
start_ssh_agent;
}
else
start_ssh_agent;
fi
Perfect. Thank you!