Multiple GitHub Accounts & SSH Config

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Andy Lester’s response is accurate but I found an important extra step I needed to make to get this to work. In trying to get two profiles set up, one for personal and one for work, my ~/.ssh/config was roughly as follows:

Host me.github.com
    HostName github.com
    PreferredAuthentications publickey
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/me_rsa

Host work.github.com
    HostName github.com
    PreferredAuthentications publickey
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/work_rsa

My work profile didn’t take until I did a ssh-add ~/.ssh/work_rsa. After that connections to github used the correct profile. Previously they defaulted to the first public key.

For Could not open a connection to your authentication agent when using ssh-add,
check:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/17695338/1760313

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