Where is the .ssh folder located?

Question

linux

I have the key to the repositories. You need to create a .ssh/config file in your git home directory and write something there. Can you tell me how to do it algorithmically? Or poke where this is explained simply, if you don’t practically know the command line (well, except for cd, ls, mkdir).
Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

the /etc/passwd file contains the home folders of all users,
but if you run the command on behalf of git, you can do this:
mkdir ~/.ssh/
nano ~/.ssh/config

Answer 2

In the shell, ~ expands as the current user's home folder, ~user as the user's home folder: ~/.ssh for the current user, ~user/.ssh for the user user.
We wrote above that you can get information from /etc/passwd, but this is the wrong approach: /etc/passwd is used for local users. If other user sources, such as LDAP, are configured on the system, they will not be in /etc/passwd. It will be correct to use the getent utility, which takes all this into account:
getent passwd | cut -d: -f6