hg doesn't connect to bitbucket using a custom key

Question

On my computer I have

.ssh/config:

Host bitbucket
    HostName bitbucket.org
    User hg
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa_pwd  

.hg/hgrc

[paths]
default = ssh://[email protected]/lohoris/varlibs

(running OSX 10.6)

I have exactly the same files on a debian server, but while "trying" a shell login works on both:

PTY allocation request failed on channel 0
conq: logged in as lohoris.

                           You can use git or hg to connect to Bitbucket. Shell access is disabled.
                                                                                                   Connection to bitbucket.org closed.

mercurial connection only works on my computer, while from the server it refuses to cooperate:

lohoris@office:~/www/varlibs$ hg pull
remote: Permission denied (publickey).
abort: no suitable response from remote hg!

This is the same message you get when the key is wrong, only it is not wrong of course (as I said, trying a ssh bitbucket does work).

It is likely using the wrong key, since it's not even trying to ask me the passphrase, but I can't fathom why.

Answer 1

If you get “Permission denied (publickey)”, it just means that the public key required to access and push to the server cannot be found. To get around this you’re going to run the following commands:

ssh-agent
ssh-add <full path to your key file>

• Troubleshooting SSH Issues
• Set up SSH for Git and Mercurial (Mac OSX/Linux)

ssh -T [email protected] also is good and fast ssh-debugger