Question

I am trying since more than 3 hours to setting up multiple account for github and litteraly tired. I have tried out almost all possible way describe here, github and articles and none of them worked. I am completely newbie to github and Unix as well. So need your help to fix this. Here below what I am doing

I am using Windows 7 and have set two ssh key for two different accounts.

1. id_rsa
2. id_rsa_ac2

Than created config file in .ssh directory of the User and added below code

#Account one
Host github.com
    HostName github.com
    PreferredAuthentications publickey
    IdentityFile /c/Projects/.ssh/id_rsa

#Account two
Host ac2.github.com
    HostName github.com
    PreferredAuthentications publickey
    IdentityFile /c/Projects/.ssh/id_rsa_ac2

Now I am trying to add remote by using below code

git remote add origin [e-mail]:myaccount/my.git

and push with bellow code

git push origin master

But when I am trying to push it is giving me Error:
Error: Permission to myaccount/my.git denied to {account}. // where it is considering default user account and not for ac2 user account
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists.

Thanks a lot..

Additional Info:

I have test the id_rsa_ac2 and giving successfully authenticated message. But the strange thing is giving username with original account not with the ac2 account username

Hi {username!} You've successfully authenticated, but GitHub does not provide shell access. //here user id should be from ac2 but it is showing userid from id_rsa and not from id_rsa_ac2

INFORMATION: Final Code

@VonC’s answer worked and adding final code as my answer if anyone want to use.

Answer 1

For your config to be taken into account, you need to use its Host name in your remote address:

git remote add origin ac2.github.com:myaccount/my

If you have defined a HOME environment variable (which isn’t defined by default on Windows, but is defined if you are using the msysgit git-cmd.bat) to a directory under which you have your .ssh directory, with its id_rsa_ac2 private key, and id_rsa_ac2.pub public key, then it will work.