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		saagarjha on Feb 17, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: An SSH server that knows who you are They tell you which account they want to log in as, which isn't necessarily their global identity they'd like to share with you.

kanox on Feb 17, 2020 [–]

Exactly: you wouldn't be able to ssh git@github.com/repo/proj but rather have to use user@github.com/proj/repo and this would be better.

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