Multiple GitHub Accounts
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Many a times you need to work with two different Github Accounts. If you are using macOs or windows, they save your account information and don’t give permissions to operate other accounts.
In order to run git commands for two different github accounts you need to follow the following step by step procedure.
Generating SSH Key for the account
ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "Github-email-address"
Generating public/private rsa key pair.Enter file in which to save the key (/Users/aditya/.ssh/id_rsa): /Users/aditya/.ssh/id_rsa_aditya
Created directory '/Users/aditya/.ssh'.Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase):
Enter same passphrase again:
Your identification has been saved in /Users/aditya/.ssh/id_rsa_aditya.
Your public key has been saved in /Users/aditya/.ssh/id_rsa_aditya.pub.
The key fingerprint is:
SHA256:SPfrZGNVJ+gHaidkUrCoOvLcnfDPqn9gRZ3L7cBoAiyE aditya@gmail.com
The key's randomart image is:
+---[RSA 2048]----+
| |
| |
| E .... o.o|
| ..o*o. o..=.|
| .+oS+.=.+ +.|
| . Oo+ . O|
| o. .** . |
| o=oX+.* |
| .=*O=+. . |
+----[SHA256]-----+Copy your SSH key using the command given below
pbcopy < ~/.ssh/id_rsa_example.pubNow you need to add this key in your Github Account
Open GitHub -> Settings -> SSH and GPG keys -> New SSH Keys -> Copy the key -> Add SSH KeyRepeat the above steps for the second github account.
Setup Github Host
touch ~/.ssh/config
vi config#first account
Host github.com-aditya
HostName github.com
User git
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa_aditya
#second account
Host github-raman
HostName github.com
User git
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa_ramangit init
git remote set-url origin git@github-raman:{ username } / { repository name with .git extension eg., aditya.git}
git config --global user.email "{ your github email }"
git config --global user.name "{ your github name }"
git status
git add --all
git commit -m "commit message"
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