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Regi Pheirim
Regi Pheirim

Reputation: 1

Work with GitHub Multiple Accounts

I have followed the tutorial to set SSH key for multiple github accounts.

But I keep getting the error 

ssh: Could not resolve hostname github-psdtowordpresspro.com: Name or service not known
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

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

Steps followed:

  1. Created SSH key: id_rsa_psdtowordpresspro.pub file in .ssh directory. (Note that this folder was not there earlier. so I had to create one)

Used the syntax ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "your-email-address"

  1. Added the SSH key to my 2nd github account

  2. Added the key

    ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa_COMPANY

  3. Created the .config file with the command

    touch ~/.ssh/config vim config

This is the code I wrote in my .config file

Host github-regipheirim
  HostName github.com
  User git
  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa_psdtowordpresspro

which is exactly how it was mentioned in the tutorial.

Then I added the remote origin as

git remote add origin [email protected]:regipheirim/regi.git

But then when I try to push it shows the error that "Hostname could not be resolved."

Here is a screenshot of

Git remote connection setting of second account

Project's .config file

[core]
    repositoryformatversion = 0
    filemode = false
    bare = false
    logallrefupdates = true
    symlinks = false
    ignorecase = true
[remote "origin"]
    url = git@github-regipheirim:regipheirim/regi.git
    fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
[user]
    name = regipheirim
    email = [email protected]

ALSO TRIED (Based on suggestion from TJL in comment section)

git remote set-url origin [email protected]:regipheirim/regi.git

But then when I tried to push with 

git push origin master

Again I get the error:

Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

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

So can anyone help me with what I am doing wrong here. I just spent the entire sunday figuring it out.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 293

Answers (2)

Boken
Boken

Reputation: 5447

Solution for multiple accounts from that same service. In this case for Bitbucket.

1) Open ~/.gitconfig file

2) Add section for each of the accounts

For example for user JohnDoe (with rsa key in ~/.ssh/id_rsa_john_1) you should add

Host bitbucket.org:JohnDoe
 User JohnDoe
 HostName bitbucket.org
 IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa_john_1
 IdentitiesOnly yes

this username should also exist in URL which you are trying to clone via SSH, for example:

git clone [email protected]:JohnDoe/my_project.git

And when you have different account in that same service you can add it also:

Host bitbucket.org:RichardRoe
 User RichardRoe
 HostName bitbucket.org
 IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa_richard_1
 IdentitiesOnly yes

So in your file you will have TWO sections about bitbucket.org.

Thanks to that you can use separate accounts (with different RSA keys).

3) Run eval $(ssh-agent)

4) Use ssh-add for all of the accounts

So for this example it will be:

ssh-add -K ~/.ssh/id_rsa_john_1

and

ssh-add -K ~/.ssh/id_rsa_richard_1

Upvotes: 0

TLJ
TLJ

Reputation: 4945

You did not link to alias you have created in your config file

try:

git remote add origin git@github-regipheirim:regipheirim/regi.git

Upvotes: 1

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