If you are using the SSH protocol, ensure sure your public key is in Bitbucket and loaded on the local system to which you are cloning. ..What does this sentence mean?

kj1

This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: Clone a repository

"If you are using the SSH protocol, ensure sure your public key is in Bitbucket and loaded on the local system to which you are cloning."

I don´t understand this sentence. What do I have to do? How do I "ensure sure my public key is in Bitbucket and loaded on the local system to which I am cloning". Which steps should I use to do this? I´m a beginner with bitbucket.

Jon Bevan _Adaptavist_

You'll need to learn a little about SSH.

Here's how to create a new SSH key pair (one half of the pair is private and shouldn't be shared and the other half is public) and load it into your local system: https://help.github.com/articles/generating-a-new-ssh-key-and-adding-it-to-the-ssh-agent/

Here's how to add that key into an account on Bitbucket: https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucket/add-an-ssh-key-to-an-account-302811853.html (or alternatively, use a key for deployment purposes - https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucket/use-deployment-keys-294486051.html)

And here's some further information about how this works: https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucket/use-the-ssh-protocol-with-bitbucket-cloud-221449711.html