How to maintain multiple bitbucket accounts with multiple ssh keys in the same system

Solution 1:

Create multiple identities for Mac OSX, GitBash, and Linux

You should at this point already have created at least a single default identity. To see if you have a default identity already, list the contents of your .ssh directory. Default identity files appear as a id_encrypt and id_encrypt.pub pair. The encrypt value is either rsa or dsa. Use the ssh-keygen command to create a new identity. In the example below, the identity is named personalid.

$ ssh-keygen -f ~/.ssh/personalid -C "personalid"
Generating public/private rsa key pair.
Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase): 
Enter same passphrase again: 
Your identification has been saved in /Users/manthony/.ssh/personalid.
Your public key has been saved in /Users/manthony/.ssh/personalid.pub.
The key fingerprint is:
7a:9c:b2:9c:8e:4e:f4:af:de:70:77:b9:52:fd:44:97 personalid
The key's randomart image is:
+--[ RSA 2048]----+
|         |
|         |
|        .|
|        Eo|
|  .  S  . ..|
|  . . o . ... .|
|  . = = ..o o |
|  . o X ... . .|
|  .ooB.o ..  |
+-----------------+

If you have multiple Bitbucket accounts, you need to generate a new public/private key pair for each account.

Create a SSH config file

When you have multiple identity files, create a SSH config file mechanisms to create aliases for your various identities. You can construct a SSH config file using many parameters and different approaches. The format for the alias entries use in this example is:

Host alias
HostName bitbucket.org
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/identity

To create a config file for two identities (workid and personalid), you would do the following:

1. Open a terminal window.

2. Edit the ~/.ssh/config file. If you don't have a config file, create one.

3. Add an alias for each identity combination for example:

   Host workid
    HostName bitbucket.org
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/workid
   Host personalid
    HostName bitbucket.org
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/personalid
   

4. Close and save the file.

Now, you can substitute the alias for portions of the repository URL address as below: [email protected]:accountname/reponame.git -> git@alias:accountname/reponame.git

Load each key into the appropriate Bitbucket account

Ensure the ssh-agent is running and loaded with your keys

Clone a repository using SSH and your alias configuration

To clone a repository with one of multiple SSH identities that you configured, you clone the repo and using your alias in the SSH URL. To try this for yourself, log into Bitbucket and do the following:

1. Navigate to the repository Overview.
2. Display the SSH URL.
   For example, ssh URL as:
   [email protected]:accountname/reponame.git
   then clone the repository using:
   git clone git@personalid:accountname/reponame.git

This refers to official solution Configure multiple SSH identities for GitBash, Mac OSX, & Linux， It works fine for me!

Solution 2:

Edit your ~/.ssh/config file as following !

Host bitbucket.org-yourusername
    HostName bitbucket.org
    User yourusername
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/yoursshkey
    IdentitiesOnly yes

Change your remote git url to have your username before '@bitbucket.org'

git remote add origin [email protected]:company/app.git

or

git remote set-url origin [email protected]:company/app.git    

If you have not yet cloned your repository:

git clone [email protected]:company/app.git