How to use multiple github accounts in VS code to push and pull from repositories Ex : first account is in : [email protected] second account is in : [email protected]

Open the terminal from the start bar.

Move to shell using : cd ~/.ssh

The cd ~/.ssh command is used to change the current working directory to the .ssh directory that is located in the user's home directory.

The tilde ~ in the command is a shorthand notation for the user's home directory, so ~/.ssh refers to the .ssh directory that is located in the home directory.

The .ssh directory is used for storing SSH-related files, such as public and private keys, known hosts, and configuration files. When you run the cd ~/.ssh command, you are changing the current working directory to this directory, which allows you to perform operations on these SSH-related files, such as generating or managing SSH keys, configuring SSH connections, and so on.

ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "[email protected]" ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "[email protected]"

While doing the third step you have to enter the rsa file name in which you wish to save the key. We are renaming it to different names for the different accounts. Set file name for user 1 = id_rsa_user1.pub Set file name for user 2 = id_rsa_user2.pub

cat id_rsa_user2.pub

Copy this public key and paste in the github account SSH Key section. Do this for both the accounts

nano config

# Personal account - default config
Host github.com
   HostName github.com
   User git
   IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa_user1
# Practise account
Host github.com-user2
   HostName github.com
   User git
   IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa_user2

If you are cloning using your default config id then you just simply need to copy the link and do git clone. git clone [email protected]:puspaul/twitter-the-algorithm.git

If you want to use your secondary account to clone then just add the user2 id after github.com with the name we changed in the config file.

git clone [email protected]:puspaul/twitter-the-algorithm.git

The add, commit and push functionalities remain same as before. The cloned repositories know from backend which id is pushing or adding and we dont need to add the identifiers at every step, just do it once during cloning and you are done.