GitHub

Authenticating Git and GitHub CLI over SSH

Prerequisites Install GitHub CLI if you haven’t already brew install gh Check that you are logged out. gh auth status You are not logged into any GitHub hosts. Run gh auth login to authenticate. If you’re still logged in, logout. gh auth status github.com ✓ Logged in to github.com as tobyscott25 (keyring) ✓ Git operations for github.com configured to use https protocol. ✓ Token: gho_************************************ ✓ Token scopes: gist, read:org, repo, workflow gh auth logout ✓ Logged out of github....

8 January 2024 · 4 min · Toby Scott
Encryption

Signing your commits with GPG (GNU Privacy Guard)

1. Pre-requisites Install GPG and PINEntry if not already installed Linux For Linux, install via your distro’s package manager. Mac For Mac, install via Homebrew: brew install gpg pinentry-mac Then to set pinentry-mac as your GPG PIN entry program, create ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf if it doesn’t exist, and add the following line to it: pinentry-program /opt/homebrew/bin/pinentry-mac Windows For Windows, it is highly recommended that you use WSL and follow this guide within your Linux subsystem (including using the Linux distro’s package manager to install GPG)....

18 April 2022 · 6 min · Toby Scott