Configuration Git to work with SSH

Step 1: Installing Git

We can install Git without having to add any repositories.

apt-get install git

Step 2: Configuring Git

git config –global user.name “John Appleseed”

git config –global user.email “email@example.com”

Step 3: SSH and Git

• Check if any SSH key exists

ls -al ~/.ssh

• Generate SSH key in your .ssh directory

ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "email@example.com"

NOTICE: If you use `sudo` to generate SSH key, then you cannot use `git` command without `sudo`. Unless, you have to use `sudo` when working with `git`, try to avoid it

• Enable SSH-agen

eval "$(ssh-agent -s)"

• Add your SSH key to the SSH agent

ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa

• Add your public key to your GitHub account

~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

• Testing your connection

ssh -vT git@github.com