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Reputation: 103

Git not picking up the correct key according to .ssh/config

I have Git on Windows and have two ssh keys for two different git repos that I want to connect to.

I created .ssh under C:\Users\MyUser and in that dir I created the config file.

My config file looks like this

Host workgit
    HostName    git.company.com
    IdentityFile C:\Users\MyUser\.ssh\id_rsa
    User    mycorpusername

Host github
    HostName    github.com
    IdentityFile C:\Users\MyUser\.ssh\personal_id
    User    mygithubuser

When I try to clone from my work repo it works fine. For some reason though when I try my presonal github it doesn't read personal_id instead it tries to read id_Rsa and iterations of it.

ssh -vT [email protected]

C:\Program Files\Git>ssh -vT [email protected]
OpenSSH_7.3p1, OpenSSL 1.0.2j  26 Sep 2016
debug1: Reading configuration data /c/Users/MyUser/.ssh/config
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: Connecting to github.com [192.30.253.112] port 22.
debug1: Connection established.
debug1: identity file /c/Users/MyUser/.ssh/id_rsa type 1
debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory
debug1: identity file /c/Users/MyUser/.ssh/id_rsa-cert type -1
debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory
debug1: identity file /c/Users/MyUser/.ssh/id_dsa type -1
debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory
debug1: identity file /c/Users/MyUser/.ssh/id_dsa-cert type -1
debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory
debug1: identity file /c/Users/MyUser/.ssh/id_ecdsa type -1
debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory
debug1: identity file /c/Users/MyUser/.ssh/id_ecdsa-cert type -1
debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory
debug1: identity file /c/Users/MyUser/.ssh/id_ed25519 type -1
debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory
debug1: identity file /c/Users/MyUser/.ssh/id_ed25519-cert type -1
debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0
debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_7.3
debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version libssh-0.7.0
debug1: no match: libssh-0.7.0
debug1: Authenticating to github.com:22 as 'hit'
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT received
debug1: kex: algorithm: [email protected]
debug1: kex: host key algorithm: ssh-rsa
debug1: kex: server->client cipher: [email protected] MAC:         <implicit> compression: none
debug1: kex: client->server cipher: [email protected] MAC: <implicit> compression: none
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_ECDH_REPLY
debug1: Server host key: ssh-rsa     SHA256:nThbg6kXUpJWGl7E1IGOCspRomTxdCARLviKw6E5SY8
debug1: Host 'github.com' is known and matches the RSA host key.
debug1: Found key in /c/Users/MyUser/.ssh/known_hosts:2
debug1: rekey after 134217728 blocks
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS
debug1: rekey after 134217728 blocks
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received
debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey
debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
debug1: Offering RSA public key: /c/Users/MyUser/.ssh/id_rsa
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey
debug1: Trying private key: /c/Users/MyUser/.ssh/id_dsa
debug1: Trying private key: /c/Users/MyUser/.ssh/id_ecdsa
debug1: Trying private key: /c/Users/MyUser/.ssh/id_ed25519
debug1: No more authentication methods to try.
Permission denied (publickey).

I tried setting a HOME env var but that didn't do anything.

I am using git-cmd.exe

Upvotes: 4

Views: 2570

Answers (1)

Jakuje
Jakuje

Reputation: 25986

The line in ssh_config should be 

Host github.com

or you should use only

ssh -vT git@github

As a result, the ssh should use appropriate key.

Upvotes: 2

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