[SOLVED] Allow multiple users to access my VPS using SSH-client configuration from the same host

Allow multiple users to access my VPS using SSH-client configuration from the same host

I would like to know how to allow multiple users to access my VPS using SSH. I tried to edit ~/.ssh/config because i expected it to manage users access from the same remote IP.

As I see, when you register for a VPS Droplet, you generate a public key and assign it to an user. That's donne and I have already logged in with them to the root user. It generated a config file for that user on my local machine.

However, I added a second user ron on the Droplet and created an authorized_keys file for that user to allow me log in with that user on SSH. This requires me to create a config file on my machine in order to log in as both users (ron and root). Here is the file I created (The IP address given is just an example):

Host 161.00.100.100
        HostName 161.00.100.100
        User ron
        IdentityFile ~/.ssh/private_key_for_ron
        IdentitiesOnly yes

Host 161.00.100.100
        HostName 161.00.100.100
        User root
        IdentityFile ~/.ssh/private_key_for_root
        IdentitiesOnly yes

After creating this, I can only SSH in to the remote server as user ron and not root. In case it's helpful, the remote server on DO is Ubuntu and my local machine is Debian.

What am I doing wrong?

Solution

You may just need to name the Host to be two different names

Host do-ron
        HostName 161.00.100.100
        User ron
        IdentityFile ~/.ssh/private_key_for_ron
        IdentitiesOnly yes

Host do-root
        HostName 161.00.100.100
        User root
        IdentityFile ~/.ssh/private_key_for_root
        IdentitiesOnly yes

ssh do-ron
ssh do-root