SSH key on computer not matching the SSH key on GitHub [closed]

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I typed in the following code to check the ssh key on my computer:

ssh-keygen -lf ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

The key it spits out does not match the key that is present on my github account. How should I proceed to solve this issue? Thanks.

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The key it spits out does not match the key that is present on my github accoun

The idea of ssh key is not to reuse a public and private key pair, but to have one for each specific environment from which you are pushing to GitHub.

Once you have generated an id_rsa (private) / id_rsa.pub (public) pair, public the public key on GitHub.

Test if that works with a:

ssh -T git@github.com