Generating an SSH Key for Secure Deployment of GitHub Repositories to cPanel

Prerequisites:

• A GitHub account with your repository
• A cPanel account
• Basic knowledge of Git and SSH

Step 1: Generate an SSH Key

• Open Terminal: On your local machine, open a terminal or command prompt.
• Create an SSH key pair:

ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "user_name@domain_name"        

Replace user_name@domain_name with your actual email address.

• Follow prompts: Enter a passphrase for your private key when prompted. (optional)
• Locate the key files: The public key (id_rsa.pub) will be saved in your home directory's .ssh folder.
• Creates a new file named config within the .ssh directory in your home directory.

touch ~/.ssh/config        

• Sets the permissions of the config file to 0600.

chmod 0600 ~/.ssh/config        

• Changes the ownership of the config file to the specified username.

chown username:username ~/.ssh/config        

• After that go to cpanel ssh access option and grant authorize to the ssh key.
• Download the key and add to your git repository.