github-key-rotator v1.10.2

GitHub Key Rotator

The GitHub Key Rotator (gkr) is a CLI tool to automate the process of rotating GitHub / GitHub Enterprise SSH keys.

Quick start

• Make sure your computer has:

  • node: >=12.0.0
  • npm: >=6.0.0
  • ssh-agent, ssh-keygen & ssh-add

• Create a GitHub personal access token

  • please do check the admin:public_key permision for the token

• Install the CLI:

  npm install -g github-key-rotator

• Generate the key with CLI

  gkr -e YOUR_EMAIL -t YOUR_GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN
  # more usage please see gkr --help

• Config your ~/.ssh/config to have:

  ######Add this section only if you are on MacOS######
  Host *
    AddKeysToAgent yes
    UseKeychain yes
  #####################################################
  
  Host github.com                  # or your GitHub Enterprise Domain
    Hostname github.com            # or your GitHub Enterprise Domain
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/github     # same as the arg of `--file -f` you pass to the CLI, default is `~/.ssh/github`
    IdentitiesOnly yes

Development scripts

• npm test: run tests (currently only run linting)
• npm run lint: run lint & typecheck
• npm run build: build the cli for local
• npm start: dev with ts-node