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Cannot read from repository with publickey

Martin Fuhrer
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March 7, 2022

I have setup my personal account as a member of a workspace. I can browse the repos in the workspace within the browser. I also added an SSH key to my personal account. Running "ssh -v git@bitbucket.org" works and says something like "You can use git to connect to Bitbucket." But when I try to clone the repo I get the error "git@bitbucket.org: Permission denied (publickey)".

Accessing the same repo from another account (obviously with a different SSH key) works without any problem.

Do you have any ideas?

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Mark C
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March 8, 2022

Hi @Martin Fuhrer

Welcome to the community.

To make sure your SSH key is in use, would it be possible for you to add it to your SSH agent?

eval $(ssh-agent)
ssh-add <Private SSH key location>

Once done, try to clone again.

If the issue still persists, you can try to enforce your environment to use a specific SSH key identity by adding the configuration below in your SSH config file.

Host bitbucket.org
  HostName bitbucket.org
  IdentityFile <Private SSH key location>

If you don't have the SSH config file yet, you can create it first:

vim ~/.ssh/config
chmod 600 ~/.ssh/config

Hope it helps and let me know how it goes.

Regards,
Mark C

Martin Fuhrer
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May 30, 2022

Hi Mark,

Sorry for late answer, the move to bitbucket cloud has been postponed for some time. But now I'm ready to tackle it again.

Meanwhile I also found the problem. I had my .ssh folder in my Windows home folder, but git bash was using a different folder as home. After moving the keys there everything worked fine.

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Mark C
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May 30, 2022

No worries at all @Martin Fuhrer

Glad to know that after moving your keys, everything worked fine.

Do let me know if you have further questions that I can help with.

Regards,
Mark C

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