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SSH Use Specific Private Key

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If you have multiple SSH keys generated for different purposes (one for GitHub, one for server administration, etc...) you can specify which private key to use via config.

In ~/.ssh/config you may have the following:

host github.com
 HostName github.com
 IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa.github
 User <your PC user name (not GitHub user name)>

host digitalocean
  HostName <your server IP>
  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa.digitalocean
  User <your server user name>