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Asked: 2026-06-13T12:55:14+00:00

So I’m now jononomo on github. A year ago, however, I was zononomo. I

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So I’m now “jononomo” on github. A year ago, however, I was “zononomo”. I quit software for a while and bought a new laptop in the interim. Then I came back and created a new account on Github under the handle “jononomo” and now I’m trying to sync my dotfiles between my two laptops. From my new laptop I created a git repository and pushed it up to github where it can be viewed under the “jononomo” account. Then I went to my old laptop and cloned this repository. Everything worked as expected.

Then I made some changes to my dotfiles on my old laptop and now I’d like to push these changes to github so that I can then pull them down to my new laptop. The problem is that when I run the command:

git push origin master

I get the error message:

ERROR: Permission to jononomo/.dotfiles.git denied to zononomo.

The first thing I did was blow away my old SSH keys in ~/.ssh/id_rsa and ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub. Then I generated new SSH keys and added my new public key to my jononomo github account. But that didn’t fix the problem. If I run the command:

ssh -T git@github.com

I get the response:

Hi zononomo! You've successfully authenticated, but GitHub does not provide shell access.

Next, I followed the solution given here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/8152291/1701170 This person suggested that I create a ~/.ssh/config file with the following contents:

Host github-jononomo
    User git
    Hostname github.com
    PreferredAuthentications publickey
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub

and then he suggested I run the command:

git remote set-url origin git@github-jononomo:jononomo/.dotfiles.git

I tried that, but it didn’t fix my issue. I’m still getting the message:

ERROR: Permission to jononomo/.dotfiles.git denied to zononomo.

Incidentally, my .gitconfig has the following contents:

[user]
    name = Jon Crowell
    email = me@myemail.com
[github]
    user = jononomo
    token = 2a18a7235746324aefec34b234aa343a
    email = me@myemail.com
[credential]
    helper = osxkeychain
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  1. Editorial Team

    zononomo? GitHub shouldn’t recognize you as zononomo anymore.
    Maybe you have an ssh agent delivering your old key?

    As suggested in “Having Trouble Switching Github accounts on terminal“, add the line:

     IdentitiesOnly yes

    to your config file and see if GitHub is still using that old id.

    however I’m still getting the 

     ssh: Could not resolve hostname github: nodename nor servname provided, or not known error

    The “hostname” to resolve must match the Host entry of the config file.

    If that Host entry is github-jononomo, you must use it in your ssh address as well:

    git remote set-url origin github-jononomo:jononomo/.dotfiles.git
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