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Multiple ssh-key on your computer
- Authors
- Name
- Nguyễn Tạ Minh Trung
If you do not have any idea to generate the ssh-key
, please refer to creating-ssh-key.
Introduction
In the case I have multiple ssh-key
and would like to use them for specified Git repo. In stead of backup them and manual update .ssh
directory, I prefer to have an automation shell script to help with that.
Get started
Take a look at your .ssh
directory.
- I will create a new directory named
trungntm
- which will store thessh-key
for user trungntm - I also create a new one named
developer1
- which will store thessh-key
for user developer1 - Next step, you need to manual move your
id_rsa
andid_rsa.pub
into new folders. Note: you should check correct files before moving them to ensure right files will be used - Okay, at this step, you've already have the enough files into your new folders. Let's open your
.bash_profile
and update it as below:
cd ~
vi .bash_profile
Update the shell
function into your .bash_profile
. Don't forget to update your user directory on your machine
function use-ssh() {
echo "🚀 🚀 🚀 Switching to ssh profile " $1
cp /Users/trung.nguyen/.ssh/$1/id_rsa.$1 /Users/trung.nguyen/.ssh/id_rsa
cp /Users/trung.nguyen/.ssh/$1/id_rsa.pub.$1 /Users/trung.nguyen/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
echo "Completed 🔥 ✅"
}
- Saving them, and open new Terminal and trying new
use-ssh
command:
use-ssh trungntm
The command will be called and update the id_rsa
and id_rsa.pub
to main files in .ssh
folder will similar to this:
trung.nguyen@trungtmnguyen ~ % use-ssh trungntm
🚀 🚀 🚀 Switching to ssh profile trungntm
Completed 🔥 ✅
Let's try to switch to developer1
trung.nguyen@trungtmnguyen ~ % use-ssh developer1
🚀 🚀 🚀 Switching to ssh profile developer1
Completed 🔥 ✅
You're done. Now, you can create a multiple profiles and switch between them easily via shell command.
Happy coding!