Git on Bitbucket Always asked for password even after uploading my public SSH key

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I uploaded my    ssh id rsa pub to Bitbucket s SSH keys as explained  but Git still asks me for my password at every operation  such as git pull   Did I miss something   It is a private repository  fork of another person s private repository  and I cloned it like this   git clone git bitbucket org Nicolas Raoul therepo git   Here is my local  git config    core          repositoryformatversion   0         filemode   true         bare   false         logallrefupdates   true  remote  origin           fetch    refs heads   refs remotes origin           url   https   Nicolas Raoul bitbucket org Nicolas Raoul therepo git  branch  master           remote   origin         merge   refs heads master   In the same environment with the same public key  Git on Github works fine   ssh is rwx------   ssh id rsa is -rw-------   ssh id rsa pub is -rw-r--r--

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If you are using a Ubuntu system  use the following to Store Password Permanently  git config --global credential helper store

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You may need to double-check your SSH identities file  You may be guiding BitBucket to look at a different incorrect private key to the equivalent public key that you have saved on BitBucket   Check it with tail    ssh config - you will see something similar to   Host bitbucket org  HostName bitbucket org  IdentityFile    ssh personal-bitbucket-ssh-key   Remember  that adding additional identities  such as work and home  can be done with the ssh-add command  for example   ssh-keygen -t rsa -C  companyName  -f  companyName  ssh-add    ssh companyName   Once you have confirmed which private key is being looked at locally  you can then take your public equivalent  in this case   cat    ssh personal-bitbucket-ssh-key pub   pbcopy   And paste that cipher onto BitBucket  Your git pushes will now  provided you are using the SSH clone as aforementioned answers have pointed out  be allowed without a password  as your device is a recognised friendly   Hopefully this helps clear it up for someone

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With me  although I ran  git clone ssh   git stash xxx com 7999 projName projA git  I was still being prompted for password for this new repo that I cloned  so by comparing its  git config file to other repos that work  It turned out to be the url under the  remote  origin   section  it was set to the ssh path above for the new repo  but was set to https xxx for the working one

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Actually  none of these answers reflect current state of the art with Git  v2 29 by time of writing this answer   In the latest versions of Git  cache  winstore  wincred are deprecated   If you want to clone a Bitbucket repository via HTTPS  e g  git clone https   Kutlime bitbucket org SomeOrganization SomeRepo git You have to   Generate app password at Bitbucket user administration  Setup your credential method in  gitconfig accordingly  global or local    credential      helper   manager  You can locate your  gitconfig by executing this command  git config --list --show-origin   Execute  git clone https   Kutlime bitbucket org SomeOrganization SomeRepo git  and wait until log on window appears  Use your user name from the url  kutlime in my case  and your generated app password as a password

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I was having other weirdness around logging in  I came across something that seemed totally dumb but worked in my case  Simply go to MacOS s keychain  Find the login lock icon in the sidebar  Click it to logout and then click to login  Sounds dumb but it solved my issues  Worth a shot

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None of these answers helped me  turned out my issue was slightly different  It was ssh that was asking for my password each time  before sending the key  So what I had to do was link my password with this command   ssh-add -K    ssh id rsa   It ll then prompt you for your password and store it  This could be the solution you re looking for if each time your prompted for a password it says      Enter passphrase for key   Users   ssh id rsa     More info here  NOTE  I used this on my mac machine successfully  but as  Rob Kwasowski pointed out below  the upper case K option is unique to mac  If not on mac you will need to use lowercase k  which probably works for mac too but I haven t tested

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I cloned the repository with HTTPS URL instead of SSH URL hence even after adding the SSH Key it was asking me for password on Bash Shell   I just edited the    git config file and changed the value of url variable by simply replacing the https    to ssh     E g    core                                       remote  origin           url   https    lt username gt  bitbucket org  lt username gt   lt repository name gt  git         fetch    refs heads   refs remotes origin                                         Changed to    core                                       remote  origin           url   ssh    lt username gt  bitbucket org  lt username gt   lt repository name gt  git         fetch    refs heads   refs remotes origin

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If you still get too many authentication failures errors  nano    ssh config  And paste  Host bitbucket james     HostName bitbucket org     User james     Port 22     IdentitiesOnly yes     IdentityFile    ssh id rsa bitbucket james  And most important - you should bitbucket james alias instead of bitbucket org when you set up your remote URL  git remote set-url origin git bitbucket james repo owner user repo name git

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In the HTTP request case  it is also and alternatively possible to paste the credentials  with password  directly into the url   http   username password bitbucket org       This will save the pain to give your credentials every times again  Simple modify your  git config  the url

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The following assumes command-line access via iTerm   Terminal to bitbucket   For MacOS Sierra 10 12 5  my system manifested an equivalent problem - asking for my SSH passphrase on each connection to bitbucket   The issue has to do with OpenSSH updates in macOS 10 12 2  which are described here in Technical Note TN2449   You very well might want to tailor your solution  but the following will work when added to your    ssh config file   Host       UseKeychain yes   For more information on ssh configs  take a look at the man pages for ssh config     man ssh config   One other thing  there is a good write-up on superuser here that discusses this problem and various solutions depending on your needs and setup

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I logged in using my username instead of email and it started working

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As explained here  if you clone with SSH url  you don t need to enter username   password each time you push   pull  Check above answer by  manojlds  But if you want to clone with HTTPS and want to avoid entering username   password each time  you can store credentials into cache with below command   git config --global credential helper  cache --timeout 3600   where 3600  seconds  means 1 hour  you may change it as per your requirement

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Its already answered above  I will summarise the steps to check above   run git remote -v in project dir  If the output shows remote url starting with https   abc then you may need username password everytime   So to change the remote url run git remote set-url origin  ssh remote url address starts with mostly git bitbucket org     Now run git remote -v  to verify the changed remote url   Refer   https   help github com articles changing-a-remote-s-url

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Step 1  Install git-credential-winstore https   confluence atlassian com bitbucketserver permanently-authenticating-with-git-repositories-776639846 html Step 2  git config --global credential helper  cache --timeout 3600  This will store your password for 1 hour  Step 3  Run a git command that will prompt you for your password and the credential will prompt and store your password

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Are you sure you cloned it using the ssh url   The url for origin says url   https   Nicolas Raoul bitbucket org Nicolas Raoul therepo git so if it is using https it will ask for password irrespective of your ssh keys   So what you want to do is the following   open your config file in your current repo     vim  git config  and change the line with the url from   remote  origin           fetch    refs heads   refs remotes origin           url   https   Nicolas Raoul bitbucket org Nicolas Raoul therepo git   to    remote  origin           fetch    refs heads   refs remotes origin           url   git bitbucket org Nicolas Raoul therepo git

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Hello Googlers from the future   On MacOS    High Sierra  the SSH key is no longer saved to the KeyChain because of reasons   Using ssh-add -K no longer survives restarts as well   Here are 3 possible solutions    I ve used the first method successfully  I ve created a file called config in    ssh   Host     AddKeysToAgent yes   UseKeychain yes   IdentityFile    ssh id rsa

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