SSH Key about ssh-action

[chinedu117]

I encountered this problem but in my own situation the problem was solved by copying the entire content of cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa. Starting from and including the comment section -----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY----- ....... to -----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----. I hope this helps someone.

[taranvohra]

Issue resolved. I had to use the contents of the private key.

[taranvohra]

No don't push the .pem file. Open the file locally, copy its contents (it'll start with ---BEGIN RSA KEY something) then go to your repo settings, add secret and paste the contents there

[abhisheksoni27]

@taranvohra Can you elaborate what exactly you did to make this work? Do you have the *.pem file pushed to your repo?

[foremtehan]

I had to use the contents of the private key.

But we shouldn't share private key? I learned this in school 🤔

[zakiego]

Adding to @chinedu117 's answer, this also means don't bother making the string fit one line, copy as is with the line breaks in the key.

I just realized that when inputting the SSH_KEY with the GitHub Action extension, it condenses it into one line, resulting in an error. When I manually input the secret through github.com, the SSH started working.

[quanglochuynh]

Adding to @chinedu117 's answer, this also means don't bother making the string fit one line, copy as is with the line breaks in the key.

I just realized that when inputting the SSH_KEY with the GitHub Action extension, it condenses it into one line, resulting in an error. When I manually input the secret through github.com, the SSH started working.

Thank you a lot, that work for me, the GitHub Actions VSCode extension needs to fix that.

[abhisheksoni27]

Awesome!

I tried that but it didn't quite work. Anyway, thanks a lot.

[slametkoala]

Issue resolved. I had to use the contents of the private key.

are u create ne user for store yus ssh key..? or u just create ssh key for default ec2 user "ubuntu"?

[usernotnull]

Adding to @chinedu117 's answer, this also means don't bother making the string fit one line, copy as is with the line breaks in the key.

[olandodeflexy]

Is it possible to use ppk private key? I have done all that is required but I am still getting this error.

[mrehman11]

Facing The Same But Fixed as mentioned in #188 Thank you