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Mohammad Anisur Rahman
Mohammad Anisur Rahman

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How to Set Up SSH Keys for GitHub on Ubuntu EC2 Instance

In this tutorial, you learn how to generate SSH key for GitHub and clone your GitHub repository in AWS ubuntu server with SSH command.

  • Generate SSH key and add the SSH key
~ ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "your_email@example.com"

~ eval "$(ssh-agent -s)"

~ ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_ed25519

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  • Copy the newly generated SSH Key and add the SSH key to your GitHub account.
~ cat ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub

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Now you can initialize git in your project directory and add GitHub repository with SSH command. And you can manage the code with git command.

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