How do I access my SSH public key

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I ve just generated my RSA key pair  and I wanted to add that key to GitHub   I tried cd id rsa pub and id rsa pub  but no luck  How can I access my SSH public key

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In UBUNTU  18 04             ssh-keygen -o -t rsa -b 4096 -C  email example com     And After that Just Copy And Paste            cat    ssh id rsa pub    or           cat    ssh id dsa pub

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Open terminal   nano    ssh id rsa pub

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If you are using Windows PowerShell  the easiest way is to   cat    ssh id  lt key-type-here gt  pub   clip   That will copy the key to your clipboard for easy pasting   So  in my instance  I use ed25519 since RSA is now fairly hackable   cat    ssh id ed25519 pub   clip     Because I find myself doing this a lot  I created a function and set a simple alias I could remember in my PowerShell profile  learn more about PowerShell profiles here  Just add this to your Microsoft PowerShell profile ps1   function Copy-SSHKey       Get-Content    ssh id ed25519 pub   clip    Set Alias -Name sshkey -Value Copy-SSHKey   Then  in a PowerShell console  run    profile to load the functions  Then from now on all you will need to do is run sshkey  and then paste the key into wherever you need via the clipboard

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Use     sudo su   cd  home user  ssh  ssh  gedit id rsa pub   Then copy the entire file without any spaces  Click your icon at the top right of the GitHub page  go to settings  and add ssh   Paste the copy into the space  It may prompt for your GitHub password  Enter it  Save

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Copy the key to your clipboard    pbcopy  lt     ssh id rsa pub   Copies the contents of the id rsa pub file to your clipboard   Warning  it s important to copy the key exactly without adding newlines or whitespace  Thankfully the pbcopy command makes it easy to perform this setup perfectly   and paste it wherever you need  More details on the process  check  Generating SSH Keys

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It can be found on this path  default path     Users john  ssh   john is your Mac username

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I use Git Bash for my Windows     eval   ssh-agent -s     activates the connection   some output     ssh-add    ssh id rsa    adds the identity   some other output     clip  lt     ssh id rsa pub     THIS IS THE IMPORTANT ONE  This adds your key to your clipboard  Go back to GitHub and just paste it in  and voil    You should be good to go

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The following command will save the SSH key on the clipboard  You only need to paste at the desired location   cat    ssh id rsa pub   pbcopy

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On Mac unix and Windows   ssh-keygen then follow the prompts  It will ask you for a name to the file  say you call it pubkey  for example    Right away  you should have your key fingerprint and your key s randomart image visible to you    Then just use your favourite text editor and enter command vim pubkey pub and it  your ssh-rsa key   should be there    Replace vim with emacs or whatever other editor you have prefer

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Open your id dsa pub or some name pub file with gedit and copy-paste the contents   Just use      ssh  gedit some name pub

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If you re using windows  the command is    x000D   x000D  type  userprofile   ssh id rsa pub x000D   x000D   x000D    it should print the key  if you have one   You should copy the entire result  If none is present  then do     x000D   x000D  ssh-keygen -t rsa -C  your email example com  -b 4096 x000D   x000D   x000D

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On a Mac  you can do this to copy it to your clipboard  like cmd   c shortcut  cat   Desktop ded html   pbcopy pbcopy  lt     ssh id rsa pub  and to paste pbpaste  gt   Documents id rsa txt  or  use cmd   v shorcut to paste it somewhere else      ssh is the same path as  Users macbook-username  ssh You can use Print work directory  pwd command on terminal to get the path to your current directory

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cat    ssh id rsa pub or cat    ssh id dsa pub  You can list all the public keys you have by doing     ls    ssh   pub

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On terminal cat    ssh id rsa pub  explanation   cat is a standard Unix utility that reads files and prints output   Is your Home User path   ssh - your hidden directory contains all your ssh certificates id rsa pub OR id dsa pub are RSA public keys   the private key located on the client machine   the primary key for example can be used to enable cloning project from remote repository securely to your client end point

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After you generate your SSH key you can do   cat  ssh id rsa pub  pbcopy   which will copy your ssh key into your clipboard

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You may try to run the following command to show your RSA fingerprint   ssh-agent sh -c  ssh-add  ssh-add -l    or public key   ssh-agent sh -c  ssh-add  ssh-add -L    If you ve the message   The agent has no identities    then you ve to generate your RSA key by ssh-keygen first

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Here s how I found mine on OS nbsp X    Open a terminal  You are in the home directory  cd  ssh  a hidden directory  pbcopy  lt  id rsa pub  this copies it to the clipboard    If that doesn t work  do an ls and see what files are in there with a  pub extension

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If you only have your private key available  you can generate the public key from it  ssh-keygen -y  or ssh-keygen -y -f path to private key

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If you re on Windows use the following  select all  and copy from a Notepad window   notepad    ssh id rsa pub     If you re on OS nbsp X  use   pbcopy  lt     ssh id rsa pub

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