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Khairun Nahar Nowrin
Khairun Nahar Nowrin

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Generating a new SSH key and adding it to the ssh-agent in Mac

  1. Go to github profile
  2. Go to Profile settings

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  1. Then click on SSH and GPG keys

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  1. Open you mac terminal and Paste the text below, replacing the email used in the example with your GitHub email address 
ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "your_email@example.com"
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  1. After Run the command it show

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Put your laptop password

  1. After that it generate SHA256

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7.Start the ssh-agent in the background.

$ eval "$(ssh-agent -s)"
> Agent pid 59566
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  1. Run 
open ~/.ssh/config
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If the file doesn't exist, create the file.

touch ~/.ssh/config
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  1. Open ~/.ssh/config file, then modify the file to contain the following lines. If your SSH key file has a different name or path than the example code, modify the filename or path to match your current setup.

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Host github.com
AddKeysToAgent yes
UseKeychain yes
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_ed25519
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  1. Run 
ssh-add --apple-use-keychain ~/.ssh/id_ed25519
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If it show error like

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Then run

ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C Your_github_emailr@gmail.com
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Then run

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  1. Go to your git hub account and click on "New SSH key"

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  1. Provide title and key.

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  1. For "key" open .ssh > id_ed25519.pub

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Now clone a project from your github repository

git clone git@github.com:KhairunNaharNowrin/End-to-End-Testing-With-Cypress.git
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  1. Setup the project environment
  2. Run 
git add .
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git commit -m "set up environment"
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It will show error like "Author identity unknown"

Run

git config --global user.email "you@example.com"
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  git config --global user.name "Your Name"
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to set your account's default identity.
Omit --global to set the identity only in this repository.

git push
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Fire and Safety Jobs •

Very useful, thanks!

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