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This manual is largely based on the Generating SSH keys Github page.

Generated a new SSH key and added it to the ssh-agent After adding a new SSH key to your GitHub Enterprise account, you can reconfigure any local repositories to use SSH. For more information, see ' Switching remote URLs from HTTPS to SSH.' Note: DSA keys were deprecated in OpenSSH 7.0. Mar 14, 2018 With SSH keys, you can connect to GitHub without supplying your username or password at each visit. You can now use ssh to clone the repo and initialize all submodules. Generate a ssh key. Ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C 'youremail@example.com' Adding your SSH key to the ssh-agent. Start the ssh-agent in the background. Eval '$(ssh-agent -s)' Add.
For the course you will need to work with Git. To identify you with the Git server, you should set up an SSH key.The steps below will walk you through generating an SSH key and adding the public key to your DevHub account.
- Apr 10, 2020 In order to create a new SSH key, run ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -m pem -f path/to/keyfile. This will prompt you for a key passphrase and save the key in path/to/keyfile. Having a passphrase is a good thing, since it will keep the key encrypted on your disk.
- SSH keys are generated through a public key cryptographic algorithm, the most common being RSA or DSA. At a very high level SSH keys are generated through a mathematical formula that takes 2 prime numbers and a random seed variable to output the public and private key.
Step 1: Get the tools
You will need to install Git. Follow the steps below for your operating system. You are allowed to use other Git clients for the labwork, but we will not help you to set up Git for these clients.
Windows
Please install Git Bash. If you want to use Powershell instead of Mingw, it is recommended to install with the Powershell extensions enabled, so the commands used in this manual will work on your terminal.
OSX
Git is included in the XCode Command Line Tools. Open a terminal and run git
to see if Git is installed. If not, the system will prompt you to install Git.
Linux
Open a terminal and install Git using the package manager of your preference, for example: apt-get install git
.
Step 2: Check for SSH keys
Open a terminal (we highly recommmend Git Bash
for windows) and run the following command:
If you get an error: No such file or directory
continue with the steps
If the directory contains a file named id_rsa.pub
you do not have to set up a new SSH key and you can go to step 3.
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Open a terminal and run the following commands:
/dr-fone-android-key-generator.html. And press 'Enter' 3 times, as we want to use the standard name without a password
Turn on your on ssh-agent:
Add your generated SSH key to the ssh-agent:
If you get the error 'Could not open a connection to your authentication agent', you a have to enable it. (See above)
Step 3: Add SSH key to Devhub
Copy the file contents of the public key to the clipboard:
- Login to Devhub and click go To Account.
- Click Setup new SSH key.
- Give the SSH key a name, for example: My Laptop
- Paste the key contents to the public SSH key field NOTEdo not add spaces or new lines to the content*
- Click Add SSH key
Step 4: Configure Git
Now that you have Git on your system, you’ll want to do a few things to customize your Git environment. The first thing you should do when you install Git is to set your user name and e-mail address. This is important because every Git commit uses this information, and it’s immutably baked into the commits you start creating.
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Step 5: Clone the repository
- Go to Courses and click the current course
- Copy the Git clone url from the page and execute it in the terminal. It will look something like this:
git clone ssh://git@devhub.ewi.tudelft.nl/courses/ti1706/1617/group-<Your group number>
- If you get a connection time out, you probably did one or more of the steps above wrong.
- If it asks you for a password, you probably did one or more of the steps above wrong.
- WARNING: If you try to clone incorrectly more than 5 times, you will be blocked for an hour
Step 6 (Optional): Adding the project to SourceTree

- Click Clone / New in SourceTree
- Click Add Working Copy and add the repository via ..
- Click Options under the Tools tab (Top bar) in SourceTree
- Under SSH Client Configurations the SSH Client is probably: PuTTY / Plink. Change this to OpenSSH (This step is not needed on mac)
- The field above should probably have changed to the correct rsa key. If you decided to change the name of the rsa key, you should change it to the correct key.
- Good luck!
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Step 7 (Optional): Automatically import your credentials when opening git bash (Only for Windows)
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- Open Git Bash
- Run the following command: