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Sublime Merge SSH permission denied
Latest as of 2019-10-30
- OS: macOS 10.15
- Build: 1119
Description Hi, I’m on MacOS Catalina, and I am trying to clone a repositoy from bitbucket.
I followed the atlassian documentation to connect via ssh to the repo : https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucket/set-up-an-ssh-key-728138079.html (Section git for macos)
After doing all this I get the Permission Denied (public key) error message from sublime merge when I try to clone my repo. I’m able to successfully clone my repo using git in the terminal, but it doesnt work on sublime merge. I tried many many different things, without success.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Found out that the issue is that the config file in the .ssh folder were not used by sublime merge. To fix my issue I ended up modifying the ssh config file under /etc/shh called ssh_config. Added 2 lines at the end under the "host" section
- IdentityFile ~/.shh/private_key_filename
- UseKeychain yes
Nowhere did I find a solution for this online... which begs the question, could this be due to where my sublimemerge.app file is located? I moved it to the Application folder after downloading it.
This is more of a git & macOS configuration issue that Atlassian needs to update for Sierra & above. You can see GitHub's documentation specifies those two extra config items here. Also, the documentation here also sheds light that the default id_rsa files only worked by default until El Capitan.
I have also been running into this issue repeatedly. Sometimes SublimeMerge respects the SSH keys that I have added to my keychain (as suggested here), but more often than not it still throws a permissions error from the app. It was also suggested in that thread to change the git binary in Settings, but that had no effect.
This is more of a git & macOS configuration issue
Not necessarily. As long as an agent or the keychain have the key and your ~/.ssh/config file is valid, there should be no reason why SublimeMerge fails to utilize it when git from a terminal has no issue.
I noticed that from the app console, it attempts to fetch with the following command:
git -c credential.helper=/Users/<user>/Applications/Sublime\ Merge.app/Contents/MacOS/git-credential-sublime fetch origin --progress
What is the point of git-credential-sublime? It has no help options and doesn't appear to do anything from the perspective of a user.
As a side note, none of this occurs on the Linux release of SublimeMerge; as long as the key is added to an agent then the app has no issue contacting the remote. I also never had to use MacOS's keychain before SublimeMerge in order to work with my repos via public keys. That it appears that I have to for SublimeMerge seems like an odd design decision.
