Adding an SSH-key permanently in msysgit windows
I am in a situation, where I need my msysgit to talk to github with different keys. However git bash insists on using the keyfile named id_rsa ONL开发者_开发知识库Y. If I do ssh -vT git@github.com I see only id_rsa being offered.
So whenever I need to use any other key I have to do all this,
ssh-agent bash
ssh-add ~/.ssh/mygithubkey
git clone git@github.com:myaccount/myrepo.git
or rename mygithubkey
to id_rsa
whenever i need it backing up the original id_rsa to another file anotherkey
and of course it is a pain, especially because the command history is also different across the regular git bash.
Other answers in stackoverflow helped only to arrive at my above workaround. If I do
ssh-add ~/.ssh/mygithubkey
directly in my git bash, it says could not connect to ssh-agent. If I do
ssh-agent ssh-add ~/.ssh/mygithubkey
git pull
ssh -vT git@github.com
directly in my git bash, it says permission denied, it seems ssh-add
did not really add the key permanently! And the added key is not offered while looking at the debug messages in verbose mode.
Is there anyway to permanently add a list of ssh keys to offer, when sshing into github? Im mostly a windows user today, so please be verbose in the answer.
I'd suggest to use a ~/.ssh/config
file similar to this answer. Something like:
Host github1
User git
Hostname github.com
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/mygithubkey
Host github2
User git
Hostname github.com
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/myothergithubkey
That way you could easily switch keys by typing either ssh github1
or ssh github2
to connect.
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