Multiple github accounts on the same computer?

Question

Trying to work on my both my actual \"work\" repos, and my personal repos on git hub, from my computer.

The work account was set up first, and everything works flawl

Answer 1

Unlike other answers, where you need to follow few steps to use two different github account from same machine, for me it worked in two steps.

You just need to :

1) generate SSH public and private key pair for each of your account under ~/.ssh location with different names and

2) add the generated public keys to the respective account under Settings >> SSH and GPG keys >> New SSH Key.

To generate the SSH public and private key pairs use following command:

cd ~/.ssh
ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "email@work.com" -f "id_rsa_WORK"
ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "email@gmail.com" -f "id_rsa_PERSONAL"

As a result of above commands, id_rsa_WORK and id_rsa_WORK.pub files will be created for your work account (ex - git.work.com) and id_rsa_PERSONAL and id_rsa_PERSONAL.pub will be created for your personal account (ex - github.com).

Once created, copy the content from each public (*.pub) file and do Step 2 for the each account.

PS : Its not necessary to make an host entry for each git account under ~/.ssh/config file as mentioned in other answers, if hostname of your two accounts are different.