That's the reason I haven't come back here since my original post, until getting another message today from this thread and getting curious. There should be a way to specify the location of an existing ssh key!Īnother option, and the one I chose, is to switch to Github Desktop, as I really don't like a software vendor who breaks existing, widely-expected intuitive behavior without warning, and then ignores customer complaints about it for months. Not letting me use my existing ssh key is a recipe for losing me as a customer - I don't like being forced to change the way I work.

Why can't I use the ssh key which I want to use? Why isn't this finding my default ssh key like all other programs I have which use ssh, including earlier versions of SourceTree. Now, I see no way to specify this key, it's not being found despite being in the normal location on Mac/Linux systems, and it seems the only way to use ssh is to generate a new ssh key - WHICH I DO NOT WANT TO DO. I used to be able to use this with SourceTree. Now, I get a message 'no key found', despite the fact I have ~/.ssh/id_rsa defined, it's in my agent and Apple keychain, and I can use this fine everywhere else. Before, I could pick one of my ssh keys (I have dozens, but mainly use one for work and another for personal Git repos) during setup. It seems there is some change to how the setup and configuration of SSH keys work. I'm on a new project where I have to collaborate with some people on Windows and suggested they use SourceTree, and wanted to re-install SourceTree on my macs so I could help them learn this by demonstration, as I have used this from time to time in the past. I normally use the command line git client to work with GitHub or BitBucket. Entering the passphrase seems to work for this and there is an option to store the password in the keychain, but I don't want to do this (otherwise what's the point in the passphrase).I just rebuilt my laptop and iMac with clean installs of MacOS Sierra. Now whenever I do a push I get a box saying 'Password Required For user git on host ', which is different to the box I used to receive asking for my passphrase. Previously when I would do a push, the first push of the day would ask me for my SSH key passphrase, but then I would be able to interact with the remote repo without needing to enter it again (presumably SSH agent was running in the background somewhere).

I have sourcetree setup to use SSH keys with both GitHub and Bitbucket and I've connected both accounts under preferences > accounts. I also upgraded my sourcetree to the latest version (I can't remember what version I had before that unfortunately). I've recently upgraded to Mac OS 10.13 from 10.11.

Mac sourcetree app id