
rw-r-r- 1 pconrad faculty 394 id_rsa.pub rw-r-r- 1 pconrad faculty 1051 authorized_keys

If you see files called id_rsa.pub and id_rsa, then you have a public/private key pair, like this:ĭrwx-x-x 127 pconrad faculty 16384 Mar 14 04:41. To see if you already have an ssh public/private key pair set up on CSIL: This way, you don’t have to type in your password to authenticate yourself to various sites. anyone that has the public key can be sure that a message coming from you is definitely coming from you, because it got encrypted with the private key, and can only be decrypted with the public key.you share the public key with other folks, and keep the private key a secret on your own hard drive.In a nutshell, the idea of a public/private key pair is this:
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Then, we’ll discuss how to extend that to other systems. Initially, I’m going to talk ONLY about doing this for your CSIL account, and for. rather than using your laptop to ssh into a CSIL machine), you’ll also have to do this step If you also do work on other computers (here, I mean working DIRECTLY on, say, your laptop with git, java,Īnt, etc. you only ever work on CSIL, and you only ever use , (2) Upload that key to github (either or ) You may to type that in, but its up to you whether to set that up or not.) Ok, how do I do it? (If you choose to protect your ssh public/private key pair with a passphrase, To repos, and pulls from private repos, without having type in your username and password. See also: github’s own tutorial on the same topic Why would I want to do that?īecause it allows you to do push operations

upload your public key to github (either, or, as the case may be).set up your CSIL account (or alternatively, your Mac, Windows or Linux computer).Generating public/private key pair, uploading public key to github
