Michael Abrahamsen

Creating Multiple SSH Key Settings For Github Accounts

Posted on Wed 29 March 2017 in git • Tagged with git, github, ssh

Create a new ssh key for the second account

$ ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -f "$HOME/.ssh/masecondgit_rsa

Create an ssh config

Create a file at ~/.ssh/config

# create the first host to use your original key as default
Host github.com
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa
    HostName github.com
    User mikeabrahamsen …