Test Bitbucket Cloud service credentials
Platform Notice: Cloud Only - This article only applies to Atlassian products on the cloud platform.
Summary
The purpose of this article is to test newly created service credentials to Bitbucket. This will cover SSH keys and App Passwords.
Solution
Solution #1 - SSH keys
Here is the article to add the ssh key.
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ssh -v -i ~/.ssh/<BBSSHKey> <UserName>@bitbucket.orgReplace <BBSSHKey> with the correct ssh key file and <UserName> with the right user name.
Expected successful output
Bitbucket Cloud does not allow for any shell access, so if a terminal session asks for an interactive shell, it will terminate the output. The test above requests by default the interactive session so we expect to get this error.
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You can use git to connect to Bitbucket. Shell access is disabledThis is the error in context.
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PTY allocation request failed on channel 0
authenticated via ssh key.
You can use git to connect to Bitbucket. Shell access is disabled
debug1: client_input_channel_req: channel 0 rtype exit-status reply 0
debug1: channel 0: free: client-session, nchannels 1
Connection to bitbucket.org closed.
Transferred: sent 2608, received 1936 bytes, in 0.1 seconds
Bytes per second: sent 25913.4, received 19236.3
debug1: Exit status 0
$Solution #2 - App Password
Here is the article to create an Application Password.
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curl -vvv -u "<username>:<appPassword>" "https://api.bitbucket.org/2.0/user"Replace <appPassword> with the application password and <username> with your username listed in your Bitbucket profile settings. Note that the App Password Label is not used in the REST calls.
Expected successful output
The call should get a http 200 and json with your users information.
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* Connection state changed (MAX_CONCURRENT_STREAMS == 200)!
< HTTP/2 200
< server: nginx
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