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Managing multiple SSH Keys for different GitHub Accounts
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Create separate SSH key for your personal account and your company. Named them with different extensions in your .ssh folder. Upload them to your github account and finally create a config file for your SSH | |
Create a config file in ~/.ssh/ | |
vim config: | |
# PERSONAL ACCOUNT Github | |
Host github.com-COOL | |
HostName github.com | |
User git | |
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa_COOL | |
# COMPANY GitHub | |
Host github.com-COMPANY | |
HostName github.com | |
User git | |
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa_COMPANY | |
Setting up different config settings for each project: | |
CD to a project folder: | |
git config user.name "Your Name Here" | |
git config user.email [email protected] | |
Whereas you can have global Git Config: | |
git config --global user.name "Your Name Here" | |
git config --global user.email [email protected] | |
Example: | |
git clone [email protected]:COMPANY/ | |
git cline [email protected]:USERNAME |
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