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Adding a new SSH key to your GitHub account

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To configure your account on GitHub AE to use your new (or existing) SSH key, you'll also need to add the key to your account.

About addition of SSH keys to your account

Puedes acceder a datos y escribirlos en repositorios en GitHub AE mediante SSH (Protocolo Secure Shell). Al conectarse a través de SSH, se realiza la autenticación mediante un archivo de clave privada en el equipo local. For more information, see "About SSH."

You can also use SSH to sign commits and tags. For more information about commit signing, see "About commit signature verification."

After you generate an SSH key pair, you must add the public key to GitHub AE to enable SSH access for your account.

Prerequisites

Before adding a new SSH key to your account on GitHub AE, complete the following steps.

  1. Check for existing SSH keys. For more information, see "Checking for existing SSH keys."
  2. Generate a new SSH key and add it to your machine's SSH agent. For more information, see "Generating a new SSH key and adding it to the ssh-agent."

Adding a new SSH key to your account

After adding a new SSH authentication key to your account on GitHub AE, you can reconfigure any local repositories to use SSH. For more information, see "Switching remote URLs from HTTPS to SSH."

  1. Copy the SSH public key to your clipboard.

    If your SSH public key file has a different name than the example code, modify the filename to match your current setup. When copying your key, don't add any newlines or whitespace.

    $ pbcopy < ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
  # Copies the contents of the id_rsa.pub file to your clipboard

    Tip: If pbcopy isn't working, you can locate the hidden .ssh folder, open the file in your favorite text editor, and copy it to your clipboard.

    $ clip < ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
  # Copies the contents of the id_rsa.pub file to your clipboard

    Tip: If clip isn't working, you can locate the hidden .ssh folder, open the file in your favorite text editor, and copy it to your clipboard.

    $ cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
  # Then select and copy the contents of the id_rsa.pub file
  # displayed in the terminal to your clipboard

    Tip: Alternatively, you can locate the hidden .ssh folder, open the file in your favorite text editor, and copy it to your clipboard.

  2. En la esquina superior derecha de cualquier página, haga clic en la foto del perfil y, luego, en Settings (Configuración).

    Icono Settings (Parámetros) en la barra de usuario

  3. In the user settings sidebar, click SSH and GPG keys. Authentication keys

  4. Click New SSH key or Add SSH key.

    SSH Key button

  5. In the "Title" field, add a descriptive label for the new key. For example, if you're using a personal laptop, you might call this key "Personal laptop".

  6. Select the type of key, either authentication or signing. For more information about commit signing, see "About commit signature verification."

  7. Paste your key into the "Key" field.

    The key field

  8. Click Add SSH key. The Add key button

Para obtener más información sobre GitHub CLI, vea "Acerca de GitHub CLI".

Before you can use the GitHub CLI to add an SSH key to your account, you must authenticate to the GitHub CLI. For more information, see gh auth login in the GitHub CLI documentation.

At present, you can only use GitHub CLI to add SSH authentication keys, you cannot add SSH signing keys.

To add an SSH authentication key to your GitHub account, use the ssh-key add subcommand, specifying your public key.

gh ssh-key add KEY-FILE

To include a title for the new key, use the -t or --title flag.

gh ssh-key add KEY-FILE --title "personal laptop"

If you generated your SSH key by following the instructions in "Generating a new SSH key", you can add the key to your account with this command.

gh ssh-key add ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub