Friday, October 28, 2022

[SOLVED] Select private key to use with Git

Issue

I have 2 Git servers that require 2 different SSH keys.

git clone user1@server1:blahblahblah uses ~/.ssh/id_rsa, but I need to specify which key to use depending on the server I am connecting to.

What Git command-line parameter does this job? (I am running Linux.)


Solution

If you are connecting via SSH then the key will be controlled by an SSH parameter, not a git parameter.

SSH looks in the ~/.ssh/config file for configuration parameters. Modify that file and add IdentityFile entries for the two Git servers like this:

Host server1.whatever.com
  IdentityFile /path/to/key_1
Host server2.whatever.com
  IdentityFile /path/to/key_2

This article has some more details.



Answered By - Cameron Skinner
Answer Checked By - Cary Denson (WPSolving Admin)
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