Hello I am very new to using zsh terminal and am trying to set up my SSH key with github. According to
CodePudding user response:
Adding your key to your ~/.ssh/config
(using, as noted, a text editor) is only needed to:
- reference a private SSH key which is not a default one (as listed in "Checking for existing SSH keys"), like
id_rsa
,id_ecdsa
, orid_ed25519
. - using a shorter SSH URL
Meaning your config file can look like:
Host gh
Hostname github.com
User git
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/my_private_key
IdentitiesOnly yes
And your SSH URL becomes gh:me/myRepository
. (no more [email protected]:...
)
You can test your SSH key with ssh -Tv gh
.