IT:AD:BitBucket:HowTo:Register an SSH Key

Mercurial from the CI/ was easy enough. Git was harder.

The issue is that with HTTPS for every command one had to upload the username/password. Not very secure even over HTTPS.

The solution is to to create an IT:AD:SSH key pair, and upload the public key to BitBucket.

If BitBucket is recommending using IT:AD:SSH, why is GitHub/ recommending the use of HTTPS/? Interesting reasoning: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11041729/why-does-github-recommend-https-over-ssh

• A public/private identity key can only be used with one BitBucket/ account
• You can have multiple identities (ie private/public keys), each one associated to different BitBucket/ accounts.
• Using SSH means you'll have to change Urls. Your Repository will now have to be re-cloned from:

    ssh://git@bitbucket.org/accountname/reponame.git
    ssh://git@bitbucket.org/xact/gittest.git

instead of

    https://accountname@bitbucket.org/accountname/reponame.git
    https://skysigal@bitbucket.org/xact/gittest.git

Note:Note that the ssh option has mechanism to pass the user name...

After creating a public/private key:

• IT:AD:SSH
• Navigate to BitBucket
• Sign in
• Go to https://bitbucket.org/account/user/xact/ssh-keys/
• Copy/Paste the contents of the public key associate to the identity.
• Start Git Bash/ and test it.
• Type: ssh -T git@bitbucket.org

You should see something similar to:

Important:The response tells you which account can log on with that key -- in this case, `xact`.Only that account can use this key.

https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/BITBUCKET/Set+up+SSH+for+Git