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Creating an SSH Keypair

Unfuddle uses public key cryptography to authenticate all access to Git repositories over SSH. In order to use an Unfuddle Git Repository, you will need to generate a keypair and provide Unfuddle with the public portion. If you already have a public/private keypair, then you may use your existing public key without having to create a new one.

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$ ssh-keygen -t rsa
Generating public/private rsa key pair.
Enter file in which to save the key (/home/user/.ssh/id_rsa): [enter for default]
Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase): [password]
Enter same passphrase again: [password confirmation]
Your identification has been saved in /home/user/.ssh/id_rsa.
Your public key has been saved in /home/user/.ssh/id_rsa.pub.
The key fingerprint is:
46:1b:99:56:77:0b:38:1e:35:92:de:94:58:b4:f3:d4 user@machine

$ cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABIwAAAQEAwIuZA6ca9I1E2c06j1lbqvzDpZD2XQ5dRGVjeby1SGX+6
tyjA1zcN9mim9DXOWiX1wyUwGnQdNR3qmzJwjlX1riLpXoEutZxRHsvWyeQFsrWM8B5rJk0U0HDEEH+/9
u0SjGZZq0ERZE+L999ZzAYp7voxD7L7zFqp+odqNMpLln4A98JTBI50q5tVBQBbkh8wXHKPI0xLB1N9u7
VCLB8NzrR7/SC73/t3XicnhmaaPL8R+9GKyfRtjxAWyRGZiG+A9ZDXgQ9m6kNP2xS3AFi2jRvHfH2tnmy
+KD80sn9hwqTIMANVr2FjVloBHmi+FIHeL9qFbdI/4DCJMHt/hEdAw== user@machine

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$ ssh-keygen -t rsa
Generating public/private rsa key pair.
Enter file in which to save the key (/Users/user/.ssh/id_rsa): [enter for default]
Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase): [password]
Enter same passphrase again: [password confirmation]
Your identification has been saved in /Users/user/.ssh/id_rsa.
Your public key has been saved in /Users/user/.ssh/id_rsa.pub.
The key fingerprint is:
46:1b:99:56:77:0b:38:1e:35:92:de:94:58:b4:f3:d4 user@machine.local

$ cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABIwAAAQEAwIuZA6ca9I1E2c06j1lbqvzDpZD2XQ5dRGVjeby1SGX+6
tyjA1zcN9mim9DXOWiX1wyUwGnQdNR3qmzJwjlX1riLpXoEutZxRHsvWyeQFsrWM8B5rJk0U0HDEEH+/9
u0SjGZZq0ERZE+L999ZzAYp7voxD7L7zFqp+odqNMpLln4A98JTBI50q5tVBQBbkh8wXHKPI0xLB1N9u7
VCLB8NzrR7/SC73/t3XicnhmaaPL8R+9GKyfRtjxAWyRGZiG+A9ZDXgQ9m6kNP2xS3AFi2jRvHfH2tnmy
+KD80sn9hwqTIMANVr2FjVloBHmi+FIHeL9qFbdI/4DCJMHt/hEdAw== user@machine.local

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On Windows, you can either use the ssh-keygen tool provided with msysGit, or a more generic tool such as PuTTYgen.

Final Configuration top

Once you have the full contents of the key (including the ssh-rsa prefix and the trailing user@machine), you should then paste that into your Personal Settings in Unfuddle.