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I can see that GitHub allows you to have multiple mail account and associate every organization you are part of with a different address.

Can this be done also for SSH keys?

What I would like to do is having two different keys, one to push on my private repository, another to push on an organization repository.

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  • I definitely need to know this too :)
    – Steve Hill
    Apr 30, 2013 at 13:05

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On Github, you can add several ssh keys to your account, simply go to your profile/ssh and click "Add SSH key".

But as far as I know the permissions for a repository is associated to the account, not the key. So if you are trying to limit the damage done by someone stealing your key, I believe you will need to create two accounts.

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  • After thinking on this issue, I came to the same conclusion. Hence accept. Besides, the authentication is per user, so once a user is authenticated, there's no way of denying access to a certain directory basing on the used ssh key. At least, intuitively.
    – Dacav
    May 2, 2013 at 10:13
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    This appears to be the correct answer, but it is so disappointing. I want to have access to my repos from multiple computers... some I want access to private personal repos, and others I need access to repos for work through my Organization membership. I have different security needs for these things. Due to the way this works, I'm forced to implement the tightest security measures on all computers or set up separate accounts. I feel GitHub could solve this.
    – Ryan
    Mar 21, 2018 at 15:24

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