# Trying to use insteadOf trick to use different SSH keys for separate github accounts - not working 3 messages from 2017-12-16 to 2017-12-16. Participants: Asfand Qazi, Jeff King. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/47450 ## Asfand Qazi, 2017-12-16 07:50 Subject: Trying to use insteadOf trick to use different SSH keys for separate github accounts - not working Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CAFTSPUV1E%2BjCMHzx%2Brq9Y1agthxcYrzDVY-rThTNCG7BfnPeTg%40mail.gmail.com ``` Hello, Here's what I'm trying to do, that i need your help with to make work: I have 2 github accounts, each with their own SSH key: my home account (default SSH key) and my work account (alternative SSH key). I can create a virtual hostname in my ~/.ssh/config like so: Host work.github.com Hostname github.com IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa-work and then clone repos with: git clone git@work.github.com/MyCompany/la-repo.git However, I'm trying to use Go, which needs to access every repo host as 'github.com', and won't support my little SSH hostname trick by default. I found out about the 'insteadOf' setting, and thought it would work. So I added this to my global git config: [url "git@github.com:MyCompany/"] insteadOf = git@work.github.com:MyCompany/ and left the SSH hostname setting where it was. Then I tried doing: git clone git:github.com/MyCompany/la-repo.git But it won't work. With GIT_TRACE=2, I get: $ GIT_TRACE=2 git clone git@github.com:MyCompany/la-repo.git 07:46:27.627557 git.c:344 trace: built-in: git 'clone' 'git@github.com:MyCompany/la-repo.git' Cloning into 'la-repo'... 07:46:27.629623 run-command.c:626 trace: run_command: 'ssh' 'git@github.com' 'git-upload-pack '\''MyCompany/la-repo.git'\''' ERROR: Repository not found. fatal: Could not read from remote repository. Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists. Can anyone help me with this? Thanks Regards, Asfand ``` ## Jeff King, 2017-12-16 09:48 Subject: Re: Trying to use insteadOf trick to use different SSH keys for separate github accounts - not working Message-ID: <20171216094840.GA32706@sigill.intra.peff.net> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20171216094840.GA32706%40sigill.intra.peff.net In-Reply-To: ``` On Sat, Dec 16, 2017 at 07:50:02AM +0000, Asfand Qazi wrote: > I found out about the 'insteadOf' setting, and thought it would work. > So I added this to my global git config: > > [url "git@github.com:MyCompany/"] > insteadOf = git@work.github.com:MyCompany/ > > and left the SSH hostname setting where it was. Then I tried doing: > > git clone git:github.com/MyCompany/la-repo.git > > But it won't work. With GIT_TRACE=2, I get: If I'm reading it right, you have the config backwards. You want to convert git@github.com from Go's invocation of Git into your special "work" alias. So: [url "git@work.github.com:MyCompany/"] insteadOf = "git@github.com:MyCompany/" -Peff ``` ## Asfand Qazi, 2017-12-16 10:04 Subject: Re: Trying to use insteadOf trick to use different SSH keys for separate github accounts - not working Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CAFTSPUWOhyBamNEJzbSDqZW%2BGE38%2BPeW6R%2BDXnY77yo1dbYQ7Q%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <20171216094840.GA32706@sigill.intra.peff.net> ``` Thanks it worked! I was reading all the tutorials wrong all this time... Regards, Asfand On 16 December 2017 at 09:48, Jeff King wrote: > On Sat, Dec 16, 2017 at 07:50:02AM +0000, Asfand Qazi wrote: > >> I found out about the 'insteadOf' setting, and thought it would work. >> So I added this to my global git config: >> >> [url "git@github.com:MyCompany/"] >> insteadOf = git@work.github.com:MyCompany/ >> >> and left the SSH hostname setting where it was. Then I tried doing: >> >> git clone git:github.com/MyCompany/la-repo.git >> >> But it won't work. With GIT_TRACE=2, I get: > > If I'm reading it right, you have the config backwards. You want to > convert git@github.com from Go's invocation of Git into your special > "work" alias. So: > > [url "git@work.github.com:MyCompany/"] > insteadOf = "git@github.com:MyCompany/" > > -Peff ```