generating an ssh key code example

Example 1: generate ssh key paitr

$ ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "[email protected]"

Example 2: how to generate ssh key in linux

ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096
ssh-keygen -t dsa
ssh-keygen -t ecdsa -b 521
ssh-keygen -t ed25519

Example 3: create a ssh key

ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "[email protected]"

Example 4: Add your SSH private key to the ssh-agent. If you created your key with a different name, or if you are adding an existing key that has a different name, replace id_rsa in the command with the name of your private key file.

$ cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

Example 5: create ssh keys

cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh [email protected] "mkdir -p ~/.ssh && chmod 700 ~/.ssh && cat >>  ~/.ssh/authorized_keys"