Question

I created a second user account on my computer, when I was releasing an app under a different developer account, as I understood this was preferable in terms of keys for the certificates.

However, now when I wish to implement source control with Github in my apps on the second account, I’m having difficulty, I suspect because the SSH key was generated with my normal account.

Has anybody else faced this situation, advice? Am I supposed to create another SSH key or something?

Answer 1

You should create one ssh key per user per computer. You can easily add multiple keys to your github account.

Just do ssh-keygen, follow the prompts, then cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub and copy the result into github on the account preferences page under SSH keys.

If you don’t know the location of the file, enter ~/.ssh/id_rsa for your private key and ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub for your public key.