1. Install Putty and related utilities

2. Set system environment variable in Windows(Control PanelSystem and SecuritySystem --> and clicking on 'Advanced system settings' in the left pane. Then click on 'Environment Variables') GIT_SSH=%path_to_plink.exe% (Note plink.exe goes into wherever you installed Putty)

3. Generate a ssh key using puttygen.exe (ssh2-rsa, 4096, comment=GitLab, and set a passphrase)

4. Add key to pageant.exe and the public key to your GitLab profile

5. Ensure you start a new command shell so that git recognizes the GIT_SSH value

6. Try these two commands to check connection first. This should give you a popup window that authenticates connection

7. set Git putty git@gitlab.com:%user%/%repo.git%

1. Gitlab Add Ssh Key
2. Gitlab Create Ssh Key

Before you can clone a repo over SSH, you must first set up your SSH keys in GitKraken. Navigate to Preferences Authentication. Under General, you may choose an SSH key pair by browsing your file system, or let GitKraken generate a key for you (recommended).Make sure that you copy your public SSH key and paste it into your remote hosting service! Sep 26, 2019  - By setting ssh key you can connect to GitLab server without using username and password each time Step 1: Run command ssh-keygen On Mac - run command on terminal.

Usage:

1. Start pagent.exe from Putty folder
2. Add key to pageant.exe

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The SSH stands for Secure Shell or Secure Socket Shell used for managing the networks, operating systems and configurations and also authenticates to the GitLab server without using username and password each time. You can set the SSH keys to provide a reliable connection between the computer and GitLab. Before generating ssh keygen, you need to have Git installed in your system.

Creating SSH Key

Step 1 − To create SSH key, open the command prompt and enter the command as shown below −

It will prompt for 'Enter file in which to save the key (//.ssh/id_rsa):', just type file name and press enter. Microsoft office 2003 product key generator. Next a prompt to enter password shows 'Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase):'. Enter some password and press enter. You will see the generated SSH key as shown in the below image −

Gitlab Add Ssh Key

Step 2 − Now login to your GitLab account and click on the Settings option.

Step 3 − To create SSH key, click on the SSH keys tab at left side of the menu.

Step 4 − Now go to C drive, you will see the file with .pub extension which was generated in the first step.

Step 5 − Next open the key.pub file, copy the SSH key and paste it in the highlighted Key box as shown in the below image −

Gitlab Create Ssh Key

Step 6 − Click on the Add Key button, to add SSH key to your GitLab. You will see the fingerprint (it is a short version of SSH key), title and created date as shown in the image below −