For example, if you have four Bitbucket accounts, you need to generate 3 new SSH keys, meaning you'll have 4 keys in all. Generate your new SSH key. In place of, enter the username of the Bitbucket account for which you're creating the SSH key.

1. Add Ssh Key Bitbucket
2. Generate Ssh Key Aix

1. Before you can use SSH keys to secure a connection with Bitbucket Server the following must have already been done: your Bitbucket Server administrator must have already enabled SSH access in Bitbucket Server. You need an SSH key! See Creating SSH keys. Alternatively, you can use an existing key, if it isn't already being used as a repository.
2. Apr 14, 2014  Hi There, I have been following the documentation on setting up ssh access to bitbucket.organd cannot seem to authenticate to the server. I have created the idrsa from openssl v1.0.1e and have copy-pasted idrsa.pub to the key store through account management, However even after adding the key via.
3. When I copy the public key from Putty Key Generator into the SSH keys setting of Bitbucket, Bitbucket it complaining it's too short. Looking back at Putty Key Generator, I am supposedly using 1024 bits. I did notice that the public keys I'm seeing from the Putty app is much shorter than the ones I've gotten via ssh-keygen on my Mac/Ubuntu machines.

What does SSH Keys do in Github / Bitbucket?

Set up SSH to reduce the risk of exposing your username and password.Some reasons you might want to use SSH key base authentication:

• Is more effective if you push and pull from Bitbucket many times a day.
• Removes the need to enter a password each time you connect.

Url formats of the repository differs from HTTPS to SSH:

Make sure you select all the characters, not just the ones you can see in the narrow window. If a scroll bar is next to the characters, you aren't seeing all the characters. Right-click somewhere in the selected text and select Copy from the menu. Generate public private key pair linux.

Environment

• Operating System : Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (64-bit)

Add SSH Keys in Ubuntu 16.04

The following steps showed the step by step installation guideline.

Set up your default identity

From the terminal, enter ssh-keygen at the command line.The command prompts you for a file to save the key in:

It will create two files; one public key file and one private key file.Both file will have your given name.

Add Key files in local machine

Keep both of the files in ~/.ssh location.

Add Ssh Key Bitbucket

Add the public key to your bitbucket settings

1. In Bitbucket go to Bitbucket settings>Account settings>SSH keys>Add key
2. Copy the contents of your public key file using the following command:

Generate Ssh Key Aix

N.B.: id_rsa is the name I have given when generating the key files. It might be something else for your case.3. Copy and paste the public key in the key field in Bitbucket and include proper label. Click Save.

Ensure Bitbucket SSH connects successfully

Return to the terminal window and write:

For github

Give your passphrase which you have given when generating the key files.If your connection is successful then you will get output like following:

For Github:

References

• Set up an SSH key: Bitbucket documentation
• Change existing folder remote url: Github documentation