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## configure multiple github accounts on the same machine.md

      
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    SSH keys

Create

ssh-keygen -o
You can view the created files (one without extension and one with .pub) under ~/.ssh/. When creating several of them, you may want to rename them appropriately (e.g. work, pers...).
Add them

to the relevant github account: https://github.com/settings/ssh/new
Configuration

The configuration file for ssh is usually not created by default so we create it:
touch ~/.ssh/config
Now paste in the config file the following:
# work account
 Host work.github.com
 HostName github.com
 User git
 IdentityFile ~/.ssh/work

 # personnal account
 Host pers.github.com
 HostName github.com
 User git
 IdentityFile ~/.ssh/pers

Usage

Usually, the ssh clone url looks like this: git@github.com:<account>/<project>.git
To link the right ssh key, prepend to <account> either pers. or work depending on who should be committing.
This results in the following git clone command:
git clone git@work.github.com:<account>/<project>.git
Now you can commit as you want and work on your cloned project with the right user.
Next steps


 what is keychain parameter in config file
 why is the commit user kinda ugly looking in github when looking at the commit history?

Credit

https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/manage-multiple-github-accounts-the-ssh-way-2dadc30ccaca/