GitHub has added support for securing SSH Git operations using FIDO2 security keys for added protection from account takeover attempts. Researchers at North Carolina State University (NCSU) found ...

GitHub, too, wants to move away from typical passwords and to more secure authentication standards. At present, users can now use a password, personal access token (PAT), or an SSH key to access ...

Do not change the email address. It must be: [email protected] To test the GitHub SSH connection for the Permission denied error, use the -T switch. If SSH is set up correctly, the output includes a ...

git push You should be prompted for the passphrase for your SSH key (and not your Gogs username). Upon successful authentication, the code will get pushed to the Gogs repository and you’re set.

GitHub Actions users may see failed workflow runs if they are using actions/checkout with the ssh-key option, notes the blog. GitHub is updating the actions/checkout action in all supported tags ...

So, how do you create the required SSH keys and copy them to the server? It’s actually very simple. Here’s how. Open a terminal window on the machine you’ll use to access the servers.

However, the RSA SSH host key exposure can still affect developers since it can cause connection errors and send warning messages. Thankfully, GitHub was able to fix the problem on Mar. 24.

Earlier this year, researcher Ben Cox collected the public SSH (Secure Shell) keys of users with access to GitHub-hosted repositories by using one of the platform’s features.