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Discussion on: How to Setup Multiple Ssh Keys for Multiple Github/Bitbucket accounts.

 
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Hazael Mojica

Hahahaha your reply made my day

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Cully Larson

You're only giving the service your public keys though. No need to "revoke" them. Your employer would likely want to remove your key so you no longer have access, but they would want to do that no matter what key you provided. And even if they left it in, it wouldn't be a security risk to you.

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Rémi Lavedrine

Definitely right.
Nevertheless, for the purpose of that post, I think that it is good to explain things clearly and not to use "implicit" behavior. That is why I used so many keys in that example. When you are familiar with this you are indeed going to use less keys and not remove everything.
And then, I think that your comment would be of great benefit. :-)

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olistik

@Cully Sometimes you want to use different accounts, in order to isolate the access to the repositories from different devices. In that case (my case) the platform (for example BitBucket) doesn't allow you to share the same public key across different accounts.

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Edwrd T

A byproduct of doing this is that it's really easy to identify which key does what.