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Reputation: 3247

Where do I find the SSH Key to paste on GitHub?

I am following the GitHub guide on generating SSH keys. I'm on step 3, sub-step 5

Paste your key into the "Key" field.

How exatly do i find the key? Where do I go to open to then paste it onto GitHub?

I have tried this 

$ open ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
Couldn't get a file descriptor referring to the console
$ ssh-rsa
ssh-rsa: command not found

How do I open the .ssh file?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3231

Answers (1)

VonC
VonC

Reputation: 1323573

You paste the content of the public key ( cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub) you generated in step 2

ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "[email protected]"

That produced ~/.ssh/id_rsa (private key) and ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub (the public key to copy on your GitHub account).

Upvotes: 8

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