How to add SSH Key in Gitlab

In this article, we are going know about how to add ssh key to your GitLab account from system.

Step 1: Lets go to gitlab.com and open your profile or setting, and search SSH Keys in Sidebar, click on it.

Step 2: SSH Key page opens, then you will find an option to generate one SSH Key or you can use old SSH Key.

Step 3: You can create and configure ED25519 Keys for SSH - so use the following command on your CMD / Terminal / GitBash as follows:

$ ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "<comment>"

The -C which is quoted as comment, there you can put your email address like: -C "example@email.com" to label or name your generated SSH Key.

Once the command is successful. OUTPUT will be as follows:

HP@HP-PC MINGW64 /c/xampp/htdocs/project (master)
$ ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "example@email.com"
Generating public/private ed25519 key pair.
Enter file in which to save the key (/c/Users/HP/.ssh/id_ed25519):
Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase):
Enter same passphrase again:
Your identification has been saved in /c/Users/HP/.ssh/id_ed25519
Your public key has been saved in /c/Users/HP/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub
The key fingerprint is:
SHA256:sdfgsdfgfglsdfdgufussfdsf+ARU example@email.com
The key's randomart image is:

Step 4: After your SSH key generated as above, now need to copy that generated ED25519 Key known as SSH Key as follows:

$ cat ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub

OUTPUT:

$ cat ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub

ssh-ed25519 asdasdasdasdasdasd/pwb4bcc7sdfsdfsfddsfsdfsd/Jtt2adadadadsXfs example@email.com

Step 5: Finally we

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