Gitlab needs SSH keys

[Moderator BobC]

I can login to Gitlab, but they now require SSH keys.

I can’t fork a project without it, from the looks of it.

I don’t understand SSH (I thought it was a cryptic remote access program) or how to create the keys.

Can anyone point me to a tutorial designed for someone unfamiliar that gives a layman’s explanation?

[Member sybok]

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Hi, you can use ‘ssh-keygen’ to generate the key, see e.g.
https://www.ssh.com/academy/ssh/keygen#adding-the-key-to-ssh-agent
If you have no key ‘~/.ssh/id_rsa’ stored on your PC, you may simply use ‘ssh-keygen’, use the default file-name (or change it as you wish) and empty passphrase.
The people at GitLab were kind enough to provide information for you:
https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/ssh.html

Once you generate the key, you should make it “more secure” by removing unnecessary rights, namely ‘chmod go-rw <key-file>’ so that no one other than you may read/modify the key.

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