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Bash script to add a new SSH key to your GitHub account
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| rm -rf ~/.ssh/id_rsa ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | |
| read -p "Enter github email : " email | |
| echo "Using email $email" | |
| ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "$email" | |
| ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa | |
| pub=`cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub` | |
| read -p "Enter github username: " githubuser | |
| echo "Using username $githubuser" | |
| read -s -p "Enter github password for user $githubuser: " githubpass | |
| curl -u "$githubuser:$githubpass" -X POST -d "{\"title\":\"`hostname`\",\"key\":\"$pub\"}" https://api.github.com/user/keys |
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I made a little script that also does this but allows you to keep several names at once, it also contains some more explanation and walkthrough on the page. Hopefully this is useful to someone, as I found this process quite opaque when I first had to do it for my private repositories:
https://github.com/morganrivers/how_to_ssh_key