ency / OpenSSH Commands Reference

## OpenSSH Commands Reference </br> | Commands | Description | |:------------------------------------------------------- |------------------------------------------------------------------------------:| |`ssh -V` | Prints SSH-Agent verion information | |`ls -al ~/.ssh` | List existing SSH Keys from standard SSH folder in user profile folder | |`ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "your_email@example.com"`| Generating SSH Keys using SSH-Keygen tool of OpenSSH | |`eval $(ssh-agent -s)` | Starts the SSH-Agent in the background | |`ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa` | Adds your Private key to SSH-Agent | |`ssh -T git@github.com` | Testing your GitBash authentication with Github | |`ssh-keygen -p` | Changing passphrase of an existing SSH Key | |`ssh-add -D` | For removing 'ALL' private keys from the SSH-Agent | |`ssh-add -d /home/user/.ssh/id_rsa` | For removing 'A Single' named private key from the SSH-Agent | |`eval $(ssh-agent -s)` | Starts the SSH-Agent | |`ssh-add -l` | To list the ssh-keys currently available with SSH-Agent | |`ssh-add -L` | With the -L option, the keys in the SSH-Agent can be listed as well. While the -l option shows the fingerprint for each key, the -L option shows the public key part of each key. | |`eval $(ssh-agent -s -k)` | To terminate the SSH-Agent the following command can be executed. kill the SSH-Agent.| <br/> ## Reference Links [Official OpenSSH Commands Reference](https://www.openssh.com/manual.html) </br>