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Add generation of custom-named SSH Keys for 'Authentication' section
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Update generating-a-new-ssh-key-and-adding-it-to-the-ssh-agent.md
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Expand Up @@ -66,7 +66,8 @@ If you are a site administrator for {% data variables.product.product_location %
```shell
> Generating public/private ALGORITHM key pair.
```
3. When you're prompted to "Enter a file in which to save the key," press Enter. This accepts the default file location.
When you're prompted to "Enter a file in which to save the key", you can press **Enter** to accept the default file location. Please note that if you created SSH keys previously, ssh-keygen may ask you to rewrite another key, in which case we recommend creating a custom-named SSH key. To do so, type the default file location and replace id_ssh_keyname with your custom key name.


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