ssh asks for passphrase at each git push

Question

I have a bitbucket account set with ssh key I have copied the ssh public and private keys in my .ssh folder I have added a ssh config file :

cat .ssh/config 

host bitbucket.org
  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/bitbucket-ssh-key
  IdentitiesOnly yes

The ssh identification works well BUT it asks for my passphrase at each git push .. witch goes again the purpuse of all this setting. What have I done wrong ?

Answer 1

You probably do not have your private key added to the agent.

See if doing an ssh-add ~/.ssh/<private key file> helps.

Also, make sure the agent is running.

Check here: https://help.github.com/enterprise/2.12/user/articles/generating-a-new-ssh-key-and-adding-it-to-the-ssh-agent/

Answer 2

I get an error :

ssh-add .ssh/bitbucket-ssh-key
Could not open a connection to your authentication agent.

I had forgotten to start the ssh-agent

eval "$(ssh-agent -s)"

Then git push went without a glitch ;)

Thanks for the RTFM pointer!