For this to work, we assume you have a local machine running Linux or a “Unix-derived” operating system, e.g. macOS and have basic knowledge of how to use the command line.

In short, these commands will create a new ssh key overwriting a key with the same name! Please use a strong password/passphrase to protect this key as anyone with access to the unlocked private key will be able to use your key with the same access permissions!

mkdir -p ~/.ssh
chmod 700 ~/.ssh
ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -a 512 -f ~/.ssh/id_ed25519-atlas

The last command will create two files, ~/.ssh/id_ed25519-atlas and ~/.ssh/id_ed25519-atlas.pub. Please send only the ~/.ssh/id_ed25519-atlas.pub to us to set-up your access to Atlas!

For more information, please refer to our FAQ pages about key creation, config file set-up, and agent usage.