Private Key not working

[Peter Bruhn]

Hi,

I have trouble connecting to bitbucket using a private key. I put the public key into my profile and changed the remote of my repo. My private key is ~/.ssh/id_rsa and it works for other matters.

> git remote -v
origin ssh://git@bitbucket.org/<project> (fetch)
origin ssh://git@bitbucket.org/<project> (push)

When I try to fetch I get an error:

> git fetch
fatal: protocol error: bad line length character: ?]11

But I can ssh to bitbucket:

> ssh -T git@bitbucket.org
logged in as <my_user>.

You can use git or hg to connect to Bitbucket. Shell access is disabled.

My system is:

> uname -a
Linux arch 4.14.15-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Jan 23 21:49:25 UTC 2018 x86_64 GNU/Linux

> git --version
git version 2.16.1

> ssh -V
OpenSSH_7.6p1, OpenSSL 1.1.0g 2 Nov 2017

Any idea what I am doing wrong?

Thanks for any hint

Peter

[jredmond]

I don't see anything immediately wrong with what you've listed here, but Git has a couple environment variables that might help debugging:

GIT_SSH_COMMAND="ssh -vv" GIT_TRACE=1 git fetch

If you run that, does it indicate anything about where the process is failing?