Question

I’m gettings started with GitHub and I have no clue what I’m doing.

What is an SSH key? What should I be setting as my key? Do I make it up?

EDIT:

I’m on OSX

Answer 1

If you have Linux (or msysGit or Cygwin…):

1. Go to directory ~/.ssh
2. Check if you already have this file: id_rsa.pub
   • If not, create it using this command: ssh-keygen -C "[e-mail]" -t rsa
3. Get the content of this file (cat id_rsa.pub) and just copy and paste to GitHub.

That is it.