Linux – How to verify github SSH keys

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How to verify github SSH keys

I want to verify that my SSH key in github matches a local file on my computer.

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The github key appears to be SHA256, encoded in base64, but the local key I encoded with this command doesn’t seem to match it.

$ cat ~/.ssh/github.pub | sha256sum | base64

Is there a better way to achieve what I want to do?

Solution

An easy way to test if they match is to authenticate via ssh on the command line.

After setting your ssh key, type:

ssh -T [email protected]

https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/connecting-to-github-with-ssh/testing-your-ssh-connection

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