CloudTrybe daviddennis02

Handling Multiple Github Accounts on MacOS

The only way I've succeeded so far is to employ SSH.

Assuming you are new to this like me, first I'd like to share with you that your Mac has a SSH config file in a .ssh directory. The config file is where you draw relations of your SSH keys to each GitHub (or Bitbucket) account, and all your SSH keys generated are saved into .ssh directory by default. You can navigate to it by running cd ~/.ssh within your terminal, open the config file with any editor, and it should look something like this:

Host *
 AddKeysToAgent yes

> UseKeyChain yes

	$ git clone [email protected]:xxxxx/xxxx.git my-awesome-proj
	Cloning into 'my-awesome-proj'...
	ssh: connect to host github.com port 22: Connection timed out
	fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

	$ # This should also timeout
	$ ssh -T [email protected]
	ssh: connect to host github.com port 22: Connection timed out

	$ # but this might work