Using a private key to connect to a git repo securely with SSH in Bamboo On Demand

[Tobias Cohen]

I'm trying to set up Bamboo to connect to our GitHub repo more securely, by using an SSH private key instead of a username/password pair, but when I try to save the settings I get the message "'SSH' transport protocol is not supported.".

I've also tried using an https:// url instead of the SSH one, but I then get the message "Authentication type not supported for http(s) protocol.".

What am I doing wrong?

[Przemek Bruski · Accepted solution]

SSH transport is not available on OnDemand. When using http(s), you have to use public repos or password authentication.

[Tobias Cohen]

This is disappointing, but we were able to get around it by creating a new Github user just for our CI server. Would be nice to see this limitation overcome in a future version.

[Daniel Siva]

This is an issue for us - we have suprepo's in Bitbucket that are configured as ssh addresses.

[Przemek Bruski]

You can vote for this feature here: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/BAM-12228

[Mike Peachey]

Be aware that HTTPS passwords are logged in plain text(!)