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Discussion on: How to set up SSH keys and connect them to GitHub

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Jonathan Boudreau •

I like to have different keys for each service I use. You can do this by specifying the host like so in your ssh config:

Host github.com
    User git
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/github
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Augusto Carmona Perez •

Thanks! It is a very good idea to have different keys!