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Yanick Rochon
Yanick Rochon

Reputation: 53616

Change SSH username when connecting with Bitbucket

I just inherited a laptop with a project hosted on Atlassian, etc. I have setup Git, and my Bitbucket profile. Yet, when I perform

ssh -T git@bitbucket

the connection is made using the previous guy's user name. I have

I do not know why SSH connects to Bitbucket with this user. Any help would be appreciated.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3747

Answers (1)

Yanick Rochon
Yanick Rochon

Reputation: 53616

Bitbucket handles public keys globally, meaning that no two users may register the same SSH key. Therefore, when I tried to connect, Bitbucket assumed the previous user since the key that it found was still attached to the user account of my predecessor.

Generating a new SSH key, overriding the previous one, then adding the public key to my Bitbucket account solved it.

Now, ssh -T [email protected] resolves with my user name.

Edit

I also use a configuration file to manage my hosts

Host project1.bitbucket
 HostName bitbucket.org
 IdentityFile path/to/pub_key_a

Host project2.bitbucket
 HostName bitbucket.org
 IdentityFile path/to/pub_key_b

Then setup Git remote as

[remote "origin"]
    url = [email protected]:orgname/project1.git
    fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*

(Change project1 with the repository name, and orgname with the owner's name of the repository, etc.)

This is how to use different SSH keys with different Git repositories, etc.

Upvotes: 3

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