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Setup Multiple SSH Keys for Multiple GitHub Accounts
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Imagine this scenario, you have 3 GitHub accounts, each have their own purposes. Account A for full time work, account B for portfolio projects and account C for personal projects. Whenever you are going to switch between repo in different accounts, you will need to use a different SSH keys for each account.
Changing SSH config every time you are switching is not good use of your time. Now you might start to think it is possible to have multiple SSH keys for each account and let SSH automatically manage it? Yeah, it is possible, but it can be quite tricky because there is a gotcha which I will explain further in this article.