Re: Use different ssh keys for different github repos (per-url sshCommand)
- From
Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>
- Date
- Jul 19, 2018, 13:27 UTC
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- <ff64d8b5-44f0-603e-fd87-5b8db86bd623@gmail.com>
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- <20180719132247.GA16497@sita-lt.atc.tcs.com>
On 07/19/2018 06:52 PM, Sitaram Chamarty wrote:
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> On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 03:24:54PM +0300, Basin Ilya wrote: >> Hi. >> >> I have two github accounts, one is for my organization and I want git to automatically choose the correct ssh `IdentityFile` based on the clone URL: >> >> git@github.com:other/publicrepo.git >> ~/.ssh/id_rsa >> git@github.com:theorganization/privaterepo.git >> ~/.ssh/id_rsa.theorganization >> >> Unfortunately, both URLs have same host name, therefore I can't configure this in the ssh client config. I could create a host alias there, but sometimes somebody else gives me the github URL and I want it to work out of the box. >> >> I thought I could add a per-URL `core` section similar to `user` and `http`, but this section is ignored by git (2.18): >> >> [core "git@github.com:theorganization"] >> sshCommand = /bin/false >> #sshCommand = ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.theorganization >> >> I thought of writing a wrapper script to deduce the key from the arguments: >> >> git@github.com git-upload-pack '/theorganization/privaterepo.git' >> >> Is this the only option? > > This is what I do (I don't have two accounts on github, but > elsewhere; same idea though)
my apologies; I did not read your email fully and went off half-cocked! Looks like you already tried host aliases and they don't work for you.
Sorry for the noise!