I\'ve got a Github account setup on one computer. I would like to also access my Github account on a second machine using the same SSH key I used for the first computer. How do
The copying of the private key will work, iff the permissions
to the ssh files copied are correct, i.e. readable for the user who uses the keys, something like 555 will do. Also, since github allows multiple ssh keys to be used with same account, you can create a new keypair and add it to your account.
It'd be best to create a new private key if github allows you to have several associated with your account. (Sharing private keys among machines is very much like sharing passwords on multiple accounts.) But not all services allow multiple keys, so...
You don't specify that you copied the private portion of the key; make sure you copy the private portion.
You don't specify that you configured the ~/.ssh/config
block to use the ~/.ssh/github
key for the github.com
host. Make sure you add a new block to your ~/.ssh/config
file just like block on the machine you stole the key from.
host github.com
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/github
(I don't know that the host is github.com
-- if you use a different hostname, then use that.)
Argh! No!
Make a new keypair on the second computer.