Adding Your SSH Key to Your BitBucket Account. Copy your ssh key by typing 'less /.ssh/idrsa.pub' on your local machine, then copying everything from 'ssh-rsa' to the end of your email address. When you have it copied, press 'q' to quit the less application. Now that you have it copied, you need to add it to your BitBucket account. In the top right corner of the BitBucket page, click the 'user' icon and select. Adding Your SSH Key to Your BitBucket Account. Copy your ssh key by typing 'less /.ssh/idrsa.pub' on your local machine, then copying everything from 'ssh-rsa' to the end of your email address. When you have it copied, press 'q' to quit the less application. Now that you have it copied, you need to add it to your BitBucket account. In the top right corner of the BitBucket page, click the 'user' icon and select 'Manage account' Select 'SSH keys' from the sidebar. Click 'Add key'. Generating Your SSH Public Key That being said, many Git servers authenticate using SSH public keys. In order to provide a public key, each user in your system must generate one if they don’t already have one.
Reading Time: 2minutesCreate a key for each of your accounts
To generate a new key pair simply run this command in the ~/.ssh/ folder:
The -C option is a comment to help identify the key. The -f option specifies the file name. Repeat the above for each Bitbucket account you want to use.
Add the public key to the correct Bitbucket account
To add a public key to a Bitbucket account, you need to go to the Bitbucket Settings Screen. Select SSH Keys in the left side menu and click Add key.
For more detailed information check out the Bitbucket documentation:
- Add an SSH key to a Bitbucket Cloud account.
- Add an SSH key to a Bitbucket Server account.
Configure SSH
In ~/.ssh/ create a file called config with contents based on this:
Replace user1 or user2 with your Bitbucket usernames
Getting your keys on a keyring
This is only useful if you use a passphrase to protect your key. Otherwise you can skip this.
Depending on your operating system you'll need to find out how best to do this.
Linux users can use GnomeKeyring.
Mac users can use the following command to permanently add keys to the Mac SSH Agent:
Cisco generate rsa key zeroize. Windows users can take a look here for more info: Git On Windows
You can check the keys on your keyring with:
Configure your Git repo
Git Generate Ssh Key Bitbucket Server
If you don’t have a local copy of your repo, you have to run the following command to clone a Bitbucket repository:
If you already have a local copy, you’ll need to update the origin:
Cp.env.example.envNow set the 32 bit long random number encryption key, which used by the Illuminate encrypter service. Steps to take after generating a new key laravel account.
Git Generate Ssh
Now go to the local Git repo that you want to configure and enter:
Where user1 matches the values you used earlier in your ssh config.
You can now git push as normal and the correct key will automatically be used.
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This post is based on the following sources:
Bitbucket Create Ssh Key
- Automatically use correct SSH key for remote Git repo by Tom Atkins
- http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/140077 by slm
- https://gist.github.com/jexchan/2351996#gistcomment-1623390 by Adam M Dutko
Git Ssh Key Bitbucket
This post was updated on 17 April 2018 to reflect the change of bitbucket.com to bitbucket.org.