setting up ssh keys for github and bitbucket

Generating a new SSH key for GitHub

Basic ssh key adding

Generating a new SSH key for GitHub.

Paste the following into GitHub:

Add the SSH key locally.

If you use a new host or something like `bitbucket.org-clientname` as `host`, you need to add it to your ssh.

Config file

If there is no config file yet:

Once there is a config file, you can add configurations with the following:

Multiple accounts by the same host

Sometimes you have different accounts (work, private, client 1, client 2, ...), and you want to ensure you commit with the proper credentials.

You can do that, but it requires a bit of work. It works the same way you add a regular ssh-key, but there are some differences.

Paste the following into your host (Bitbucket in this example):

Now is where it gets different. You create an alias. We can add anything we want behind the hostname. In this example, we add "-private", but it might as well be "-client-x".

In the config, we resolve the hostname.