Learning Node.js Development

Generating a key

To make a key we'll use the ssh-keygen command. Now the ssh-keygen takes three arguments. We'll pass in t setting it equal to rsa. We'll pass in b which is for bytes, setting that equal to 4096. Make sure to match these arguments exactly, and we'll be setting a capital C flag which will get set equal to your email:

ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C '[e-mail]'

Now the scope of what's actually happening behind the scenes is not part of this book. SSH keys and setting up security, that could be an entire course in and of itself. We'll be using this command to simplify the entire process.

Now we can go ahead and hit enter, which will generate two new files in our .ssh folder. When you run this command, you'll get greeted ...