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SSH Auth fails with Bitbucket

Dan Coleman
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July 1, 2021

I followed the instructions to create a SSH keypair through Sourcetree, by going to Options -> Accounts, and adding my account.  I then added the public key to my Bitbucket account.  Authentication always fails:

 

Permission denied (publickey).

fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

 

Please make sure you have the correct access rights

and the repository exists.

 

I tried adding the key via ssh-add, and I can authenticate fine with it on the command line.  It just doesn't work in Sourcetree.  There's no way for me to use SSH to access my Bitbucket account.  Running "ssh -Tv git@bitbucket.org" shows that it is correctly using the generated key to log in.

 

This is happening on version 4.1.1 and 4.1.2 on macOS.  I was able to get SSH working fine with a PuTTy key on Windows.

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Dan Coleman
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July 1, 2021

I can even execute the exact command that Sourcetree says it is executing on the command line, and not get any errors:

 

git --no-optional-locks -c color.branch=false -c color.diff=false -c color.status=false -c diff.mnemonicprefix=false -c core.quotepath=false -c credential.helper=sourcetree fetch origin

 

But in Sourcetree, it throws the publickey auth failure every time.

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