Hi,
I’m new to coding and GitHub but I’ve found something in the Installfest instructions that may be a typo error or perhaps just a misunderstanding on my part. Would appreciate a second opinion, thanks.

The instructions in the documentation requests the student to add a generated public key to the authentication agent, as follows.

Add your generated public key to the authentication agent using the following command:

Type this in the terminal:

ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa

However wouldn’t the above instruction actually add the private key instead of the public key?

Since ‘id_rsa.pub’ is the public key, should the instruction be: ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub ?

Here’s a link to the installfest page, scroll down to the 'Verify' section. http://installfest.railsbridge.org/installfest/create_an_ssh_key#generate-key