Ubuntu ssh key generate

1. How do I generate an SSH key in GitHub?
2. How do you get the 2048 rsa key in Linux?
3. How do I find my SSH key?
4. How do I find my ssh Agent key?

How do I generate an SSH key in GitHub?

Login to github.com and bring up your account settings by clicking the tools icon. Select SSH Keys from the side menu, then click the Add SSH key button. Name your key something whatever you like, and paste the contents of your clipboard into the Key text box. Finally, hit Add key to save.

How do you get the 2048 rsa key in Linux?

Launch your favourite terminal application. Run ssh-keygen command without providing any options. $ ssh-keygen Generating public/private rsa key pair. ssh-keygen will generate a 2048 bit rsa key pair if no option is specified.

How do I find my SSH key?

To generate an SSH private/public key pair for your use, you can use the ssh-keygen command-line utility. You can run the ssh-keygen command from the command line to generate an SSH private/public key pair. If you are using Windows, by default you may not have access to the ssh-keygen command.

How do I find my ssh Agent key?

Once launched, a ssh-add -L will list the active keys. From there, ssh-add -l/-L will list the register keys fingerprint, pr keys content. You can compare a fingerprint from ssh-add -l with ssh-keygen -lf /path/to/ssh/key in order to determine which key filename was added to the agent.