Enabling SSH access to repository

Configuration

You can enable SSH for Git access at the system settings page. SSH bind host and SSH bind port which are used for SSH access are required.

You can set SSH public host and SSH public port if you want to use diffrenet hostname and port number by having a proxy server in fron of GitBucket.

Also, you have to set the base url of your GitBucket instance to enable SSH access. Note that if you have a reverse proxy and it has a different hostname from the GitBucket server, a hostname in the base url is different from a hostname for SSH.

Then, repository url for SSH becomes available.

SSH key

Users who want to use SSH for Git access have to register their SSH keys to GitBucket.

First, create a key using ssh-keygen:

$ ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "your_email@example.com"

id_rsa and id_rsa.pub are generated in ~/.ssh. Then, register the content of id_rsa.pub at the account settings of GitBucket:

That's all. SSH access is now available.