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Nandakumar
Nandakumar

Reputation: 1101

SSH KEY Already Exists Bitbucket

For the 2 multiple projects, 2 multiple bitbucket developer accounts are used but in the same machine. SSH KEY is accepted for the one Bitbucket account.

When I add the same key to the other bit bucket accounts, It shows KEY already exists ?

How could I avoid this problem ? Is there a security reasons behind this ?

It accepts the same key in Gitlab Note: Currently we are using HTTPS connection for other accounts ?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 8245

Answers (1)

VonC
VonC

Reputation: 1326676

How could I avoid this problem? Is there a security reason behind this?

Yes: if a public key is registered in a Bitbucket account, that means any git operation using that SSH URL would be associated with that account.

Registering the same public SSH key to a different account would mean having to choose between two Bitbucket user accounts. That is not possible.

What you can do is create a different public/private couple of SSH keys, and reference one or the other Bitbucket account, by declaring both sets of SSH keys in an ~/.ssh/config file.

See "How to use different keys for different Bitbucket repos in SmartGit?"

host bitbucket1
        user git
        hostname bitbucket.org
        port 22
        identityfile /C/path/to/.ssh/key1
host bitbucket2
        user git
        hostname bitbucket.org
        port 22
        identityfile /C/path/to/.ssh/key2

Then:

  • Pushing to bitbucket1:repoA will use the user1.
  • Pushing the same repo, but with bitbucket2:repoA will use the user2.

Upvotes: 3

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