terminal cannot push pull while sourcetree can

Question

Hello everyone,

I have reinstalled sourcetree lately,  setup the ssh keys with our bitbucket server, and can push pull successfully. However I noticed that I cannot push/pull from the terminal because I'm getting public key errors. I have tried the

ssh-add ~/.ssh/bitbucket_private_key.ppk

command but i get an invalid format error. The keys were generated using the Putty tooling supplied with Sourcetree.

shalipoto · Answer

Hi Oleg, that did it. I saw that putty can export the private key in  openssh format and that was the first step. I also needed to start the ssh agent with:

eval $(ssh-agent -s)

only then did the agent accept the new key:

ssh-add ~/.ssh/myPrivateOpenSshKey

Thanks again for your suggestion Oleg.

Saleem

obogomolov · Answer

I guess you should convert the key from puttygen format to OpenSSH format to use it in the ssh-add tool.