Git on Bitbucket: Always asked for password, even after uploading my public SSH key

Question

I uploaded my ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub to Bitbucket\'s SSH keys as explained, but Git still asks me for my password at every operation (such as git pull).

Answer 1

If you are using a Ubuntu system, use the following to Store Password Permanently:

git config --global credential.helper store

Answer 2

I logged in using my username instead of email and it started working.

Answer 3

In the HTTP request case, it is also and alternatively possible to paste the credentials (with password) directly into the url:

http://username:password@bitbucket.org/...

This will save the pain to give your credentials every times again. Simple modify your .git/config (the url).

Answer 4

You may need to double-check your SSH identities file. You may be guiding BitBucket to look at a different/incorrect private key to the equivalent public key that you have saved on BitBucket.

Check it with tail ~/.ssh/config - you will see something similar to:

Host bitbucket.org
 HostName bitbucket.org
 IdentityFile ~/.ssh/personal-bitbucket-ssh-key

Remember, that adding additional identities (such as work and home) can be done with the ssh-add command, for example:

ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "companyName" -f "companyName"
ssh-add ~/.ssh/companyName

Once you have confirmed which private key is being looked at locally, you can then take your public equivalent, in this case:

cat ~/.ssh/personal-bitbucket-ssh-key.pub | pbcopy

And paste that cipher onto BitBucket. Your git pushes will now (provided you are using the SSH clone as aforementioned answers have pointed out) be allowed without a password, as your device is a recognised friendly.

Hopefully this helps clear it up for someone.

Answer 5

With me, although I ran 'git clone ssh://git@stash.xxx.com:7999/projName/projA.git' I was still being prompted for password for this new repo that I cloned, so by comparing its .git/config file to other repos that work, It turned out to be the url under the [remote "origin"] section, it was set to the ssh path above for the new repo, but was set to https:xxx for the working one.

Answer 6

Actually, none of these answers reflect current state of the art with Git (v2.29 by time of writing this answer). In the latest versions of Git, cache, winstore, wincred are deprecated.

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If you want to clone a Bitbucket repository via HTTPS, e.g.

git clone https://Kutlime@bitbucket.org/SomeOrganization/SomeRepo.git

You have to:

1. Generate app password at Bitbucket user administration.
2. Setup your credential method in .gitconfig accordingly (global or local)

[credential]
    helper = manager

You can locate your .gitconfig by executing this command.

git config --list --show-origin

3. Execute

git clone https://Kutlime@bitbucket.org/SomeOrganization/SomeRepo.git

and wait until log on window appears. Use your user name from the url (kutlime in my case) and your generated app password as a password.