What is the proper and simplest way (hopefully a How To Guide) to connect via SSH to the git?

Question

Hello,

Hopefully someone can point me to the right documentation on this matter.

I'm getting this emails saying there will no longer be able to use password.

What is the proper and simplest way (hopefully a How To Guide) to connect via SSH from an own server to the git at bitbucket using other method other than password?

Caroline R · Answer

Hi, @capuromeyer, thank you for reaching out to Atlassian Community.

Just to complement Robert’s answer, in order to change your authentication method in Git, you can change the remote URL of your repository (you can switch it to SSH/HTTPS). In order to modify that, you can run the following commands:

1. From a terminal, navigate to the repository:

$ cd ~/<path_to_repo>

2. Run git remote -v to see the current remote URL:

$ git remote -v
origin https://emmap1@bitbucket.org/tutorials/tutorials.git.bitbucket.org.git (fetch)
origin https://emmap1@bitbucket.org/tutorials/tutorials.git.bitbucket.org.git (push)

3. Update the remote URL with git remote set-url using the current and new remote URLs.

$ git remote set-url origin git@bitbucket.org:{workspaceID}/{repository_name}.git

In case you would like to read more about how to change the remote URL of your repository, you can access the following page:

* https://support.atlassian.com/bitbucket-cloud/docs/change-the-remote-url-to-your-repository/

And if you need any help to configure an SSH key, you can find more information here:

* https://support.atlassian.com/bitbucket-cloud/docs/set-up-an-ssh-key/

I hope this helps, but do let me know if you have any questions.

Kind regards,
Caroline

Robert Wen_Cprime_ · Answer

You're connecting over HTTPS.  Connecting over SSH would look like:

git clone git@bitbucket.org:team/repository.git /path/to/directory

capuromeyer · Answer

Hi, thanks for replying.

I'm a little confused by now.

When cloning a repository into a server I use:

git clone https://bitbucket.org/team/repository.git /path/to/directory

I believe I'm connecting through HTTPS

Will this be affected?