Generating A Ssh Key Pair In Sourcetree For Bitbucket
- Status:Closed(View Workflow)
- Resolution: Fixed
- Fix Version/s: None
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- Environment:
Mac OS X Sierra desktop
Bitbucket Server
Sourcetree 2.4 (and the Beta has this problem too)
- Generating A Ssh Key Pair In Sourcetree For Bitbucket Server
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- Generating A Ssh Key Pair In Sourcetree For Bitbucket 2017
Copy the idrsa.pub file content from where it is residing in your system (C: Users username.ssh) Login to bitbucket account and click top right most user icon -bitbucket settings-ssh keys under security menu then paste into key field and save it. 6.Restart your git bash terminal and enter git init command and add ssh git repository location. SSH keys are used to authenticate secure connections. Following this guide, you will be able to create and start using an SSH key. Git is capable of using SSH keys instead of traditional password authentication when pushing or pulling to remote repositories. Modern hosted git solutions like Bitbucket support SSH key authentication.
Please watch my short video illustrating the experience.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPUAkG78BFE&feature=youtu.be
Scenario 1:
On MacOS X Sierra when setting up SourceTree for first time and choosing 'SSH' as the authentication method, SourceTree:
- Should not have a URL for the Bitbucket server, should be a hostname without the https://
- Should not need a 'password'
- Generate SSH Key button is greyed out
- User can skip setup and perform this step manually through the Remote Repository Browser's 'Add Account' function
Adding your SSH key to the ssh-agent. Before adding a new SSH key to the ssh-agent to manage your keys, you should have checked for existing SSH keys and generated a new SSH key. When adding your SSH key to the agent, use the default macOS ssh-add command, and not an application installed by macports, homebrew, or some other external source. Feb 12, 2018 change the credentials “kind” to “SSH Username with private key” in follow with username that is being used in the bitbucket account,private key and passphrase that used to unlock the private key. Now add the public key to bit bucket, Bitbucket – settings – security–ssh keys –add keys. Jun 05, 2015 Stage 1 – Generating a SSH key. Open SourceTree and click on the Terminal icon (this is Git Bash) Type the following command in ls –all /.ssh (this will list any existing ssh keys in C:Users.ssh, this is the default but can be changed when generating the key). Next, generate the key ssh-keygen –t rsa –b 4096 –C “”. When editing the account, and selecting 'Generate Key' it now works (but generates a public/private key with a 'space' in the filename (e.g. MwildeBitbucket Server.pub) After putting my public key in my account on Bitbucket and trying to clone, errors are related to what is in the '.ssh/config' file this occurs.
Scenario 2
On MacOS X Sierra when using the 'Add Account' function the experience when selecting SSH as the authentication method is:
- URL is asked for, should be a hostname
- Password is not needed
- User should be able to select an existing ssh key on their system
- Generate Key button is visible and clickable, when clicked, process continues, but no key is generated and a 'Tooltip' is displayed when account is saved indicating no SSH key
- When editing the account, and selecting 'Generate Key' it now works (but generates a public/private key with a 'space' in the filename (e.g. mwilde_Bitbucket Server.pub)
After putting my public key in my account on Bitbucket and trying to clone, errors are related to what is in the '.ssh/config' file this occurs.
- No hostname is in the '.ssh/config' file (edited by SourceTree) causing a failure on clone
- When hostname is added, errors occur due to 'space' in filename
- When '.ssh/config' is edited removing spaces and subsequently renaming the private key to match the reference in the '.ssh/config' file
After 'fixing' all of these issues, cloning only works thru the CLI, or via a 'Clone in SourceTree' link up in Bitbucket Server. Cloning does not work through the remote repository browser.
Please watch my short video illustrating the experience.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPUAkG78BFE&feature=youtu.be
Note: I have a few hundred people in my company i'd like to train on SourceTree (and have them use SSH keys if possible), so please fix this ASAP.
- Assignee:
- Brian Ganninger (Inactive)
- Reporter:
- Michael S Wilde
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On Windows, you can create SSH keys in many ways. This document explains how to use two SSH applications, PuTTY and Git Bash.
Joyent recommends RSA keys because the node-manta CLI programs work with RSA keys both locally and with the ssh agent. DSA keys will work only if the private key is on the same system as the CLI, and not password-protected.
PuTTY
PuTTY is an SSH client for Windows. You can use PuTTY to generate SSH keys. PuTTY is a free open-source terminal emulator that functions much like the Terminal application in macOS in a Windows environment. This section shows you how to manually generate and upload an SSH key when working with PuTTY in the Windows environment. Puntrusted x11 forwarding setup failed xauth key data not generated.
About PuTTY

PuTTY is an SSH client for Windows that you will use to generate your SSH keys. You can download PuTTY from www.chiark.greenend.org.uk.
When you install the PuTTY client, you also install the PuTTYgen utility. PuTTYgen is what you will use to generate your SSH key for a Windows VM.
This page gives you basic information about using PuTTY and PuTTYgen to log in to your provisioned machine. For more information on PuTTY, see the PuTTY documentation |
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Generating an SSH key
To generate an SSH key with PuTTYgen, follow these steps:
- Open the PuTTYgen program.
- For Type of key to generate, select SSH-2 RSA.
- Click the Generate button.
- Move your mouse in the area below the progress bar. When the progress bar is full, PuTTYgen generates your key pair.
- Type a passphrase in the Key passphrase field. Type the same passphrase in the Confirm passphrase field. You can use a key without a passphrase, but this is not recommended.
- Click the Save private key button to save the private key. You must save the private key. You will need it to connect to your machine.
- Right-click in the text field labeled Public key for pasting into OpenSSH authorized_keys file and choose Select All.
- Right-click again in the same text field and choose Copy.
Importing your SSH key
Now you must import the copied SSH key to the portal.
- After you copy the SSH key to the clipboard, return to your account page.
- Choose to Import Public Key and paste your SSH key into the Public Key field.
- In the Key Name field, provide a name for the key. Note: although providing a key name is optional, it is a best practice for ease of managing multiple SSH keys.
- Add the key. It will now appear in your table of keys under SSH.
PuTTY and OpenSSH use different formats of public SSH keys. If the text you pasted in the SSH Key starts with —— BEGIN SSH2 PUBLIC KEY
, it is in the wrong format. Be sure to follow the instructions carefully. Your key should start with ssh-rsa AAAA…
.
Once you upload your SSH key to the portal, you can connect to your virtual machine from Windows through a PuTTY session.
Git Bash
The Git installation package comes with SSH. Using Git Bash, which is the Git command line tool, you can generate SSH key pairs. Git Bash has an SSH client that enables you to connect to and interact with Triton containers on Windows.
To install Git:
- (Download and initiate the Git installer](https://git-scm.com/download/win).
- When prompted, accept the default components by clicking Next.
- Choose the default text editor. If you have Notepad++ installed, select Notepad++ and click Next.
- Select to Use Git from the Windows Command Prompt and click Next.
- Select to Use OpenSSL library and click Next.
- Select to Checkout Windows-style, commit Unix-style line endings and click Next.
- Select to Use MinTTY (The default terminal of mYSYS2) and click Next.
- Accept the default extra option configuration by clicking Install.
When the installation completes, you may need to restart Windows.
Launching GitBash
To open Git Bash, we recommend launching the application from the Windows command prompt:
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- In Windows, press Start+R to launch the Run dialog.
- Type
C:Program FilesGitbinbash.exe
and press Enter.
Generating SSH keys
First, create the SSH directory and then generate the SSH key pair.
Generating A Ssh Key Pair In Sourcetree For Bitbucket Server
One assumption is that the Windows profile you are using is set up with administrative privileges. Given this, you will be creating the SSH directory at the root of your profile, for example:
- At the Git Bash command line, change into your root directory and type.
Change into the .ssh directory
C:Usersjoetest.ssh
- To create the keys, type:
- When prompted for a password, type apassword to complete the process. When finished, the output looks similar to:
Uploading an SSH key
To upload the public SSH key to your Triton account:
- Open Triton Service portal, select Account to open the Account Summary page.
- From the SSH section, select Import Public Key.
- Enter a Key Name. Although naming a key is optional, labels are a best practice for managing multiple SSH keys.
- Add your public SSH key.
When Triton finishes the adding or uploading process, the public SSH key appears in the list of SSH keys.
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What are my next steps?
Generating A Ssh Key Pair In Sourcetree For Bitbucket 2017
- Adding SSH keys to agent.
- Set up the Triton CLI and CloudAPI on Windows.
- Set up the Triton CLI and CloudAPI.
- Create an instance in the Triton Service Portal.
- Set up the
triton-docker
command line tool. - Visit PuTTYgen to learn more about the PuTTYgen and to seethe complete installation and usage guide.