Multiple users, single server account, github

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There is a common case that multiple users use the same Linux server account, but they have different github accounts and their own repos. How to get a solution for this problem?

Given you have already configured an active github account (Alice) on the server with all global git and ssh settings done. We treat Alice as the main account.

Now configuring the ssh settings. We generate one more RSA key pairs.

ssh-keygen  -t rsa -C "hello world"

When choosing the save path, be sure to save the file to a new name, e.g. id_rsa_bob.

Then we add the private key to ssh settings.

ssh-agent bash
ssh-add id_rsa_bob

$ssh-add -l will show the accepted private keys list.

Also, add id_rsa_bob.pub to your github ssh key list.

Next, we write the ~/.ssh/config file:

# git@github.com:Alice
Host github.com
  User Alice 
  HostName github.com
  PreferredAuthentications publickey
  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa

# git@github.com:bob
Host github-bob.com
  User bob
  HostName github.com
  PreferredAuthentications publickey
  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa_bob

Make sure to give the file a proper authority:

chmod 600 ~/.ssh/config

Alice, as the main user, do not need to change anything. Bob, however, consider he clone a repo gene-player from his github. Now he need to set the repo’s config file.

git config user.name "bob"
git config user.email email "bob@gene-player.com"
git config remote.origin.url "git@github-bob:bob/gene-player.git"

Note that we need to modify the remote.origin.url, replacing the original domain name “github.com” to “github-bob” as what we set the Host variable in ~/.ssh/config.

Now Bob can play with the repo.

Reference

• https://blog.csdn.net/onTheRoadToMine/article/details/79029331
• https://blog.csdn.net/Jack_0817/article/details/55668892
• https://blog.csdn.net/dong_alex/article/details/80813816

Updated 2019-01-24