Github Credentials

Owned by Daniel Stonier

Last updated: May 22, 2024

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Dual Work-Personal SSH Accounts

Nothing changes for your personal account (assuming it already exists)

For your work account:

Create an ssh key and save it to a named file

# This creates ~/.ssh/work_rsa and ~/.ssh/work_rsa.pub
$ ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "bob-work@gmail.com" -f "work"

Upload the ssh key to your github work account
Create a new github.com configuration in ~/.ssh/config

Host work
    Hostname github.com
    User git
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/work

Test the ssh key

$ ssh -T git@github.com
Hi bob! You've successfully authenticated, but GitHub does not provide shell access.
$ ssh -T git@work
Hi bob-work! You've successfully authenticated, but GitHub does not provide shell access.

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