I'm struggling with the concept of SSH Agent Forwarding.
This is what I've done so far:
- Create default identity local (ssh-keygen)
- Install the public key on bitbucket
Now I want to connect to a server like ssh myserver@myserver.be
.
Then I would normally create a key on the server with ssh-keygen and again, copy the public key and add it to my bitbucket SSH keys. after that I can clone my SSH repository and pull/push to the bitbucket repository. But that is not the way to do it.
How can I make sure I don't have to create a key on my server? I've read many tutorials like this but I'm still struggling with the ssh agent forwarding.
UPDATE:
I've tried to do this tutorial but I'm already stuck at step 1. They say you need to add the following text to your config file (located at ~/.ssh/config):
Host example.com
ForwardAgent yes
My config file looks like this before the first step:
Host bitbucket.org
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa
After the step it looks like this:
Host bitbucket.org
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa
Host mysite.be
ForwardAgent yes
To try if it works you need to execute the following command on your server:
ssh -T git@bitbucket.org
Tried this but I'm getting the error Permission denied (publickey).
on my server.
Best Answer
It looks like you may not have actually added the key to the agent..
If your local workstation is Linux then there's likely an agent running as part of your session you can examine it's contents with
ssh-add -l
If the key hasn't been added to the agent you can also add it with
ssh-add
After that when you
ssh
to mysite.be you should be able to see the key fingerprint listed when you runssh-add -l