git pushes with wrong user from terminal

Question

I have an issue with git and my terminal.

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When I push commits from my terminal, git says I

Answer 1

The solution for me was to add an entry in my ~/.ssh/config file for github. I had to do this because:

1. I had multiple github accounts with the same key (don't do this!)
2. when you 'git push' using ssh, your computer grabs id_rsa by default and uses that as its ssh identity.
3. github can't (unsurprisingly) deconflict which account you mean, since it's basing the account off the key it is presented, which if tied to more than one account, leads to pain like this. The killer is, for a long time, I was getting away with this and things just worked out.

The entry I added is:

Host github.com
    Hostname github.com
    Port 22
    User waterproofpatch
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa_waterproofpatch

I had created a new key, unique to my account, as id_rsa_waterproofpatch. This entry in my ssh config specifies that for connections to github.com, I wish to present this key.

Another solution would probably have been for me to log into the other account, delete the duplicate ssh key.