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ilyo
ilyo

Reputation: 36391

Working with multiple github accounts with SSH fails

I have a personal and a work accounts on github. I have SSH keys for both and this config file in the ~/.ssh

Host github
  HostName github.com
  User git
  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa

Host github-work
  HostName github.com
  User git
  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/work-rsa-key

When I work with the personal account all is fine but when I try to pull/push to the work account I get

$ git pull
ERROR: Repository not found.
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.

Of course I verified the address is correct.

When I do ssh -T [email protected] I get Hi ilya! ... which is the personal user name.

This is the config for the work account:

[core]
    repositoryformatversion = 0
    filemode = true
    bare = false
    logallrefupdates = true
    ignorecase = true
    precomposeunicode = false
[branch "dev"]
[remote "origin"]
    url = git@github-work:work/repo.git
    fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
[branch "dev"]
    remote = origin
    merge = refs/heads/dev
[branch "unify"]
    remote = origin
    merge = refs/heads/unify
[user]
    name = ilya-work
    email = [email protected]

Upvotes: 0

Views: 68

Answers (2)

TuanNguyen
TuanNguyen

Reputation: 1046

Add the following line to your SSH config section:

IdentitiesOnly yes

For example:

Host github-work
  HostName github.com
  User git
  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/work-rsa-key
  IdentitiesOnly yes

Alternatively, you might want to add your private key identitiy to the authentication agent, by running

$ ssh-add ~/.ssh/work-rsa-key

When executing git pull, it will try every identities found in your authentication agent. That's why this method is not (much) recommended.

Upvotes: 0

Fadils
Fadils

Reputation: 1526

Have you done ssh-add ~/.ssh/work-rsa-key ?

Verifiy that all your keys are listed by doing ssh-add -l.

Then, you can do the following:

git config user.name "ilya-work"
git config user.email "[email protected]"

Now, git pull should work.

Upvotes: 1

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