Specify a specific SSH private key for git pull/git clone

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Specify a specific SSH private key for git pull/git clone

Mattias Geniar, November 19, 2019

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I’ve been moving some projects around lately and found myself in need of a weird thing I hadn’t considered before: specifying a specific SSH private key for running things like git clone or git pull.

Luckily, it wasn’t that hard.

Using a specific environment variable

You can overwrite the SSH command that’s being used by git, by giving it a custom environment variable.

Consider this example:

$ GIT_SSH_COMMAND='ssh -i /var/www/html/ma.ttias.be/.ssh/id_rsa' git pull

This runs the git pull command, but it does so by using a very specific private key located in /var/www/html/ma.ttias.be/.ssh/id_rsa.

The GIT_SSH_COMMAND is available in modern git versions and can be used to overwrite the identity (-i) or things like the SSH port.

A custom SSH config

An alternative approach, but one I found less useful for quick-and-dirty git operations, is to modify your SSH client config.

You can specify an alias for SSH operations and use that to point to the correct identity file.

$ cat ~/.ssh/config
Host yourserver
    Hostname something.domain.tld
    IdentityFile /var/www/html/ma.ttias.be/.ssh/id_rsa
    IdentitiesOnly yes

Now, if you git clone from that specific alias, it will use your private key.

$ git clone git@yourserver:yourrepo.git

The yourserver translates to the alias used in ~/.ssh/config.

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