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Test SSH config in SourceTree terminal fails

Phil Rittenhouse June 6, 2019

We have a script that tests our user's development environment to make sure everything is set up correctly.  To test that SSH is setup the script runs 

ssh -T git@bitbucket.org

which is straight from Atlassian's trouble shooting page: https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucket/troubleshoot-ssh-issues-271943403.html#TroubleshootSSHissues-TestSSHauthentication

 

For some reason though, one of our SourceTree users fails this test even though their SSH connection to bitbucket is working fine.  They can run git pull or push without and trouble but when they run the command above they get:

$ ssh -T git@bitbucket.org
git@bitbucket.org: Permission denied (publickey).

Upgrading to SourceTree 3.1.3 and the latest embedded git gave the same result

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Phil

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Mike Corsaro
Atlassian Team
Atlassian Team members are employees working across the company in a wide variety of roles.
June 14, 2019

Hello!

This probably has to do with any of the following:

  • The path to SSH is not the same as the other machines (check environment variables)
  • The SSH key info is being saved to .gitconfig in another location (I think the way git feeds SSH info to git is different than just running ssh -T). Run the following command to see where all git configurations come from and compare it to the working machines:
    git config --list --show-origin

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