IT:AD:SSH-ADD
- See also:
- IT:AD:SSH-KEYGEN ← used to create the Key pairs that you add with SSH-ADD
Summary
Once you've used IT:AD:SSH-KEYGEN to create IT:AD:SSH Key pairs, you use IT:AD:SSH-ADD to register the keys, and associate them to the url of a remote service (such as IT:AD:BitBucket).
The association between Keys and url is used by your SSHAGENT so that when IT:AD:Git (or other tool) invokes IT:AD:SSH to communicate with a remote server, it knows which key pair to use.
Process
The process of setting up SSH is more or less the following:
- After installing Git properly (ensuring PATH and HOME IT:AD:Environment Variables are updated):
- After ensuring SSH is available:
- After determining if you have keys or not:
- After ensuring you have a created key pairs if need be:
- After registering the key pairs if need be:
- After configuring the relationship between a host url and the key:
- The following should work: