You should have received a tarball containing the SSH private key to use for accessing your kernel.org account. Place that private key into your ~/.ssh directory, e.g.:

cp korg-username ~/.ssh/id_korg

You can change the key passphrase using ssh-keygen -p. ALWAYS KEEP YOUR SSH KEY PROTECTED WITH A PASSPHRASE!

Your kernel.org account grants you access to gitolite.kernel.org, which you will use both for accessing your git trees (see gitolite) and for uploading tarball releases (see kup).

Add the following entries into your .ssh/config:

Host gitolite.kernel.org
  User git
  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_korg
  IdentitiesOnly yes
  ClearAllForwardings yes
  # We prefer ed25519 keys, but will fall back to others if your
  # openssh client does not support that
  HostKeyAlgorithms ssh-ed25519,ecdsa-sha2-nistp256,ssh-rsa
  # Below are very useful for speeding up repeat access
  # and for 2-factor validating your sessions
  ControlPath ~/.ssh/cm-%r@%h:%p
  ControlMaster auto
  ControlPersist 30m
  # Helps behind some NAT-ing routers
  ServerAliveInterval 60

fingerprints.txt.asc

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA256
 
# ssh-keygen -E sha256 -lf <(ssh-keyscan gitolite.kernel.org)
2048 SHA256:S1b2ARCfjjhsPJeqbCwkG+2ukBPCApogEfRTkVqEj4g gitolite.kernel.org (RSA)
256  SHA256:n5cYLTSXgZ97jR9DfOcFxHeHAt3BBqU89TpTQspqFxo gitolite.kernel.org (ECDSA)
256  SHA256:KTfZsrwphTMpYOYr0Acfdk25gtg6zui3Oh8QOawAm5M gitolite.kernel.org (ED25519)
 
# ssh-keygen -E md5 -lf <(ssh-keyscan gitolite.kernel.org)
2048 MD5:b1:33:44:9d:3f:77:59:14:f8:05:d7:33:5d:b1:40:7b gitolite.kernel.org (RSA)
256  MD5:7c:a6:a2:e0:96:5f:e2:9a:9b:53:b6:41:29:66:f8:47 gitolite.kernel.org (ECDSA)
256  MD5:30:f1:e6:8f:ff:76:45:e7:5b:45:b0:bd:bd:ca:14:9c gitolite.kernel.org (ED25519)
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