On 8/30/2019 12:23 PM, Richard Eckart de Castilho wrote:
> On 30. Aug 2019, at 17:51, Marshall Schor <m...@schor.com> wrote:
>> In my case, because my work has it's own separate github, they have a
>> different
>> signup method, and so I have a different GitHub(work) account name, from my
>> GitHub(public) account name.
> Well, if your work uses the public GitHub (github.com)
no, it has it's own separate github, not the public one.
> and you have created
> a second account there for non-work-related stuff, then you have two GitHub
> accounts.
I do have 2 different "accounts", with 2 different account names, and 2
different ways of supplying login credentials.
> However, I am not aware of github.com supporting multiple authentication
> mechanisms. Are you sure your work doesn't use a private (hosted or cloud)
> GitHub
> instance?
Yes it does use a separate private GitHub.
> [1] Such instances would support alternative sign-up / authentication
> strategies.
>
>> I'm guessing that the Apache version of the a hosting spot for git
>> repositories
>> (at gitbox.apache.org) has it's own signup conventions, which are the
>> account-name = your Apache ID, account pw = your Apache ID pw.
> You have an Apache account and you have some GitHub account. Via
> https://id.apache.org
> you can link two GitHub accounts to your Apache account. As far as I know,
> there
> are no additional signup conventions.
Right, thanks.
>> GitHub and GitHub(work) support multiple emails (click on your profile
>> picture,
>> pick settings, see Emails). These also support a User Name, different from
>> the
>> git id, and different from the account-login-name (profile picture ->
>> settings
>> -> profile).
> Yes, you can set various informations in your profile to tell people more
> about
> who you are, what you do, etc. People can see this information when they visit
> your public profile page, e.g. https://github.com/reckart.
OK, Thanks.
> Cheers,
>
> -- Richard
>
> [1] https://github.com/enterprise
