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Using Pageant with VSCode Remote SSH

While Putty and Pageant are widely used tools for SSH connections, you can also integrate Pageant with VSCode to establish remote SSH connections without administrative privileges. While the default ssh-agent service offers similar functionality, it's disabled by default and requires administrative access to start if disabled, making Pageant a more flexible alternative. Here's how you can set it up:

Different ssh keys for different github.com accounts

It might be a common case that you have multiple github.com accounts (personal and professional), and you want to use different ssh keys for different github accounts, as github.com does not allow same ssh key for different accounts with "Key is already in use" error.

To achieve this, you could follow this tutorial: