Importing SSH keys from GitHub

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Why

Sometimes you need a quick and easy way to add your personal SSH keys to a server

We can use GitHub as our source for SSH keys

How

RootCurrent user

wget -O - https://github.com/userbradley.keys >> /root/.ssh/authorized_keys

wget -O - https://github.com/userbradley.keys >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

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Import Public keys for ssh hosts

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