Setting up SSL for multiple git accounts

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This article is a quick guide for setup SSL to your multiple git accounts. Let’s start now.

Step 1 — Generate SSH Keys

Check whether there are any existing SSH keys available to reuse. You can use ls -al~/.ssh command to check it. If there are no keys, you can use ssh-keygen -t rsa -C “your_git_account_email” to generate new SSH keys for each git account. After generating it will be asked the location to save the key file. Press enter to leave the default location.

Step 2 — Adding SSH keys to git accounts

1. Login to all git accounts.
2. Go to settings.
3. Click “SSH and CPG keys”.
4. Click on “New SSH key”.
5. Enter the preferred title and paste the key.
6. Click “Add SSH key”.
7. Repeat steps to for your all git accounts.

Step 3 — Register new SSH key in ssh-agent

You can use eval "$(ssh-agent -s)" command to start ssh-agent. Then add keys to ssh agent by ssh-add ~/.ssh/saved_ssh_key_file_name commad.

Step 4 — Create SSH config file

Ok. This the last step you have to follow.

First, create an SSH config file by following commands.

   cd  ~/.ssh
   touch  config
   subl  -a  config

Then, in the config file, you can set up your all accounts as follows.

#  account 1
Host  github..com
HostName  github..com
User  git
IndeittyFile~/.ssh/saved_ssh_key_filename
# account 2
Host gitlab.com
HostName gitlab.com
User git
IndeittyFile~/.ssh/saved_ssh_key_filename

Finally, you can go ahead with the corresponding repositories using the SSH keys.

Thanks for reading.