With the push towards using SSH instead of HTTPS on Github there has been some situations that a little bit of finessing. Thankfully, there are workarounds to get past this. So a situation came up recently where the team I was apart of had a robot with a single ssh key. However, we wanted to pull in code from various individual’s accounts. Of course, being part of an organisation meant we could create a dev account and simply switch the user.name whenever a person proceeds to commit some code. Alternatively, we can set up multiple SSH keys. Let’s go with the latter because it’s more fun.
Step 1:
Create an SSH key by going into the ssh folder on an Ubuntu and generating the key
cd ~/.ssh
ssh-keygen -f DeveloperA_id_rsaStep 2:
Next copy the result of this ID and paste it into github (or any git based service really).
cat DeveloperA_id_rsa.pub
Step 3:
