How to setup my SSH on two different computers?

mk_street

I have two computers.  One at home and one at my office.

Somehow, long ago, I got SSH setup at home.  So I can push/pull from all my repositories using SSH.

 

At my office, I always have to enter my password.  I have tried different ways to setup SSH at my office, but it never works.  

 

At work, do I need to setup a new user ID and connect that to my repositories with its own SSH?  Do I need to copy the SSH file from home to my work computer?

 

Daniil Penkin

Hello @mk_street,

You can go with either of the options you mentioned:

• you can copy your SSH key you have at home to your machine at work
• you can generate another SSH key at work and add it to Bitbucket as another SSH key in your account

From security perspective I'd recommend to use different keys so that your private SSH key is never copied around, and so that you can rotate these keys independently when needed.

I always have to enter my password.

This really depends on how you configured your SSH key and agent. If you meant you have to enter your Bitbucket account password, not SSH key password, then check clone URL in your local copy of the repository – it is probably HTTPS, not SSH and hence is using HTTP authentication.

Hope this helps. Let me know if you have any questions.

Cheers,
Daniil