SSH keys and CNAME and DNS for Dum Dums (aka ME)

Series: debugging

Because this stuff confused the ever-loving heck outta me. SSH Keys To start: you can’t use a Username/Password combination to push to a GitHub repository. They took it away, I assume because it’s less secure than other authentication methods. I begin with GitHub because that’s what brought me to needing to understand more about SSH keys. I - embarrassingly - had originally thought that you only couldn’t use your Username/Password from RStudio.