Configure Github access for your Ubuntu VPS

Last updated on Aug 26, 2023

TL;DR

Run the following on your VPS server, to generate an ssh key to use for authenticating your server with Github

Bare in mind, that following this, will

ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "[email protected]"

# start the ssh-agent in the background
$ eval "$(ssh-agent -s)"
> Agent pid 59566

ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_ed25519

nano ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub

## Now copy paste the key and head to https://github.com/settings/keys to add it

# Now try pulling a repo. It should work

What

ssh-keygen Generates a new SSH key on your server. You can skip this if you already have on for whatever reason. You can check by issuing ls ~/.ssh which is the place that ssh keys get normally stored