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              April 10, 2022 01:45
                — forked from JoaquimLey/github_multiple-accounts.md
            
              
                How to Work with GitHub and Multiple Accounts
              
          
        
      
        
  
      
    Step 1 - Create a New SSH Key

We need to generate a unique SSH key for our second GitHub account.
ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "your-email-address"
Be careful that you don't over-write your existing key for your personal account. Instead, when prompted, save the file as id_rsa_COMPANY. In my case, I've saved the file to ~/.ssh/id_rsa_work.
Step 2 - Attach the New Key