Getting ready

Two important things to do in preparation for setting up SSH:

1. If you are using Windows, install Git for Windows. The Git for windows installation (http://gitforwindows.org/) adds a shortcut to Git Bash in the Start menu.
2. When you generate SSH keys they are stored in a default folder in your machine, In this recipe, we'll use Bash to generate the SSH keys. Alternatively, you can use other shell environments to generate SSH keys as well. Be careful if you have any existing SSH keys on your machine, generating SSH keys in the default folder location will overwrite any existing SSH keys in that folder.