SSH Keys & PAT

PAT (Personnal Access Token)

In your account settings, you can generate a PAT and then use it like so:

https://<username>:<PAT>@github.com/username/repo.git

SSH Keys

ssh-keygen -t ed25519  # PUT A PASSPHRASE OR IT WONT WORK
cat ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub  # KEEP DEFAULT NAME OR IT WONT WORK

Copy content and paste in deploy key Go to repo>settings>deploy key

git clone git@github.com:username/repo.git

Alternatively, If you go on your account settings, you can also enable global access for your account or for just some repos

If you're still having issue to connect, check your permissions with ls -la

  • .ssh/ directory: 700 ( drwx------ )

  • public key (.pub file): 644 ( -rw-r--r-- )

  • private key (id_rsa): 600 ( -rw------- )

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