SSH keys for Multiple Accounts in Github
I have multiple Github accounts and some of these are collaborator in others. I don’t like to write passwords every time I push, so I set up SSH keys for my accounts. But Github (understandably) doesn’t accept a key in more than one account. (Otherwise how can it know?)
But there is a way to use .ssh/config
file to use different keys for different target urls.
# Personal account, - the default config
Host github.com
HostName github.com
User git
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa
# Work Account
Host work.github.com
HostName github.com
User git
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa_work
Now you can create another ssh key in ~/.ssh/id_rsa_work
and add it to your account. When you configure a repo, you need to specify git@work.github.com:user/repo
as the repository address rather than git@github.com:user/repo
.