Disable SSH on a repo mercurial

[harshman_chris]

Hello,

I am looking to turn off ssh on either a single repo or my account as a whole so I can give access easier to other people without having to set them up with keys.

Thanks

[aMarcus · Accepted solution]

SSH is not required for anyone. The clone option only defaults to SSH if you have keys, otherwise the default option is HTTPS. There isn't, and won't be a way to disable using SSH as it is more secure.

[harshman_chris]

Can you explain in more detail how I can set this up then? I am not following you completely.

Right now I have a repo with ssh, if I want to use https on it, do I just change the url and it will default back to the password method?

actually I guess that is how you do it, I tried it and it worked so thank you.

[aMarcus]

This is mostly correct. If you already cloned the repository using SSH, you'll need to change your remote setting in Git. To do this:

git remote -v

This will show the current repository URL aliases.

Find the one that looks like ssh: git@bitbucket.org:[your username]/[your repo].git

Remove that entry.

git remote rm origin

Then add the new HTTPS URL

git remote add origin https://bitbucket.org/[your username]/[your repo slug].git