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Kaushal Bhavsar
Kaushal Bhavsar

Reputation: 93

How to change the ssh key while doing a "git pull" on a server with multiple users?

I am using an ec2 server in which there are two users. Let's call them user1 and user2 with their separate user1key and user2key in the ~/.ssh folder.

My git config file in the ~/.ssh folder looks like this

Host user1
    HostName github.com
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/user1key
Host user2
    HostName github.com
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/user2key

I want to use user1 to pull and commit changes to the origin. However, when I run git pull, it asks for the passphrase of user2key which I don't have.

I tried using git config user.name "user1" inside the repository and then did a git pull but it again asked for a passphrase for user2key.

I even tried removing the information for user2 from the config file and run git pull again but it still asked for the passphrase for user2key.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 870

Answers (1)

VonC
VonC

Reputation: 1323553

user.name has nothing to do with authentication to the remote server.

If you are using a ~/.ssh/config with a Host entry named user1, then your remote URL must become:

git@user1:user1/repo-name

And you can test the connection to github.com with ssh -Tv user1.

Again, the name of the Host entry is what you need to use for your URL.
It becomes a shortcut for

ssh -i ~/.ssh/user1key -Tv [email protected]

Note: add User git in each Host subsection, that way you do not even have to specify git@.

Host user1
    HostName github.com
    User git
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/user1key
Host user2
    HostName github.com
    User git
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/user2key

Upvotes: 1

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