VS Code / Bitbucket / SSH - Permission denied (publickey)

In case someone is looking for an answer in mac

ssh-agent

ssh-add, after this command add your passphrase


Windows 10 allows using all default OpenSSH tools. However, git was throwing permission denied for every time when I tried to clone repositories from Github, Gitlab or Bitbucket over SSH. You need to perform a few tweaks to make it work.

  1. Make sure ssh-agent service enabled, or run in Powershell (as administrator):

Get-Service -Name ssh-agent | Set-Service -StartupType Manual

  1. ssh-agent
  2. ssh-add
  3. git config --global core.sshCommand C:/Windows/System32/OpenSSH/ssh.exe

In addition to the answer from Alexandr Pilgun some additional information that made the difference for me.

At step 4 I needed to provide double backslashes. VSCode complained that it could not find the ssh.exe. Using the double backslashes looks like this:

git config --global core.sshCommand C:\\Windows\\System32\\OpenSSH\\ssh.exe

I am using Windows 10.0.19042 Enterprise

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