Can a Deploy Key be used on Github?

Hi there,

I added the locally created SSH key as a Github deploy key to my test repo. Is that supposed to work? I can't see any status feedback as to whether the SSH login was successful or not.

When looking on the Github side it says the key's never been used. Do note that the repo is uninitialised as well.

I'd like to avoid adding another SSH key to my whole Github account since this would give write access to all my repos. If a deploy key is usable then the instructions for Github should probably recommend this.

Cheers,

Jun