git - How to maintain multiple bitbucket accounts with multiple ssh keys in the same system

Question

I have multiple Git accounts one is my personal use and one is for company use. Both accounts source need to be activated from my laptop. Here I generated two ssh keys like id_rsa.pub,id_benwork_rsa.pub and I configured the config of git as

Host sfsworkdid
 HostName bitbucket.org
 IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa
Host workdid
 HostName bitbucket.org
 IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_benwork_rsa

So here is my problem: while pushing to any repo git asking the first ssh_key passphrase. Everytime I am changing the user.name in git config as git config user.name "mybitbucketusername". So please tell me how to maintain multiple git accounts with multiple ssh keys in the same system

I tried How to work with multiple ssh keys, Multiple bitbucket accounts but no use

push using multiple account / multiple identity on github / bitbucket is somewhat helpful to reach up to now

Answer 1

Create multiple identities for Mac OSX, GitBash, and Linux

You should at this point already have created at least a single default identity. To see if you have a default identity already, list the contents of your .ssh directory. Default identity files appear as a id_encrypt and id_encrypt.pub pair. The encrypt value is either rsa or dsa. Use the ssh-keygen command to create a new identity. In the example below, the identity is named personalid.

$ ssh-keygen -f ~/.ssh/personalid -C "personalid"
Generating public/private rsa key pair.
Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase): 
Enter same passphrase again: 
Your identification has been saved in /Users/manthony/.ssh/personalid.
Your public key has been saved in /Users/manthony/.ssh/personalid.pub.
The key fingerprint is:
7a:9c:b2:9c:8e:4e:f4:af:de:70:77:b9:52:fd:44:97 personalid
The key's randomart image is:
+--[ RSA 2048]----+
|         |
|         |
|        .|
|        Eo|
|  .  S  . ..|
|  . . o . ... .|
|  . = = ..o o |
|  . o X ... . .|
|  .ooB.o ..  |
+-----------------+

If you have multiple Bitbucket accounts, you need to generate a new public/private key pair for each account.

Create a SSH config file

When you have multiple identity files, create a SSH config file mechanisms to create aliases for your various identities. You can construct a SSH config file using many parameters and different approaches. The format for the alias entries use in this example is:

Host alias
HostName bitbucket.org
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/identity

To create a config file for two identities (workid and personalid), you would do the following:

1. Open a terminal window.

2. Edit the ~/.ssh/config file. If you don't have a config file, create one.

3. Add an alias for each identity combination for example:

   Host workid
    HostName bitbucket.org
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/workid
   Host personalid
    HostName bitbucket.org
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/personalid
   

4. Close and save the file.

Now, you can substitute the alias for portions of the repository URL address as below: git@bitbucket.org:accountname/reponame.git -> git@alias:accountname/reponame.git

Load each key into the appropriate Bitbucket account

Ensure the ssh-agent is running and loaded with your keys

Clone a repository using SSH and your alias configuration

To clone a repository with one of multiple SSH identities that you configured, you clone the repo and using your alias in the SSH URL. To try this for yourself, log into Bitbucket and do the following:

1. Navigate to the repository Overview.
2. Display the SSH URL.
   For example, ssh URL as:
   git@bitbucket.org:accountname/reponame.git
   then clone the repository using:
   git clone git@personalid:accountname/reponame.git

This refers to official solution Configure multiple SSH identities for GitBash, Mac OSX, & Linux， It works fine for me!