SSH Key - Still asking for password and passphrase

Question

I\'ve been somewhat \'putting up\' with Github always asking for my username and password when I clone a repository. I want to bypass this step because it is an annoyance w

Answer 1

Use ssh-add command to add your public key to the ssh-agent.

ssh-add

Make sure the ssh public key e.g. ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub is what you have in your repo settings.

Make sure you can actually ssh into the server e.g. For Bitbucket:

ssh -T git@bitbucket.org

Update the url to move from https to ssh. You can check which you use by checking the output of:

git remote -v

If you see a https:// in the urls, then you are still using https. To update it: Take the url and just replace https:// with ssh:// e.g. Change:

https://git@bitbucket.org/../..

To:

ssh://git@bitbucket.org/../..

Referenced: https://docs.github.com/en/github/using-git/changing-a-remotes-url#switching-remote-urls-from-https-to-ssh