Setting up SSH key without using id_rsa for Bitbucket

05 Dec 2018

These are the the steps to generating a new SSH key and testing Bitbucket ssh keys on Windows.

This set up will allow you to use a custom ssh key specifically for Bitbucket, without having to change your id_rsa key.

Run ssh-keygen to create a new ssh key
- Use bitbucket_rsa for key name
- Don’t specify a password, if you don’t want to enter it every time.
Add the public key to the ssh-keys section inside of Bitbucket (use the file with the .pub extension)
Create ssh config file with the following settings for bitbucket.org

FileName: ~.\ssh\config
```
 Host bitbucket.org
   IdentityFile ~/.ssh/bitbucket_rsa
   IdentitiesOnly yes
```
Test your new key against Bitbucket to see if it uses the correct file

ssh -T git@bitbucket.org

Verify you’ve successfully logged in.

 logged in as <UserName>.
     
 You can use git or hg to connect to Bitbucket. Shell access is disabled.

Now, you should be able to push / pull from Bitbucket without needing to specify your ssh key:

SSH will use the correct key when connecting to bitbucket.org.

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