Build throws USERAUTH fail error about multi-module-maven-release-plugin

[beatngu13]

Thanks for the fast response, Daniel. I forgot I was using a passphrase for my SSH key, which caused the error. Although I wasn't able to make it work by specifying the passphrase in the settings.xml, removing the passphrase did the trick. My bad!

[apedano]

Same issue

[beatngu13]

Same here, although my SSH key is under ~/.ssh/id_rsa:

[ERROR] 
[ERROR] 
[ERROR] 
[ERROR] ************************************
[ERROR] Could not execute the release plugin
[ERROR] ************************************
[ERROR] 
[ERROR] 
[ERROR] There was an error while accessing the Git repository. The error returned from git was:
[ERROR] [email protected]:retest/surili.git: USERAUTH fail
[ERROR] Stack trace:
[ERROR] org.eclipse.jgit.api.errors.TransportException: [email protected]:retest/surili.git: USERAUTH fail
	at org.eclipse.jgit.api.LsRemoteCommand.execute(LsRemoteCommand.java:223)
	at org.eclipse.jgit.api.LsRemoteCommand.call(LsRemoteCommand.java:161)
	at com.github.danielflower.mavenplugins.release.RemoteTagFetcher.getTags(LocalGitRepo.java:241)
	at com.github.danielflower.mavenplugins.release.LocalGitRepo.allTags(LocalGitRepo.java:211)
	at com.github.danielflower.mavenplugins.release.Reactor.getRemoteBuildNumbers(Reactor.java:120)
	at com.github.danielflower.mavenplugins.release.Reactor.fromProjects(Reactor.java:46)
	at com.github.danielflower.mavenplugins.release.ReleaseMojo.execute(ReleaseMojo.java:126)
	at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultBuildPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultBuildPluginManager.java:137)
	at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:210)
	at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:156)
	at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:148)
	at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject(LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:117)
	at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject(LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:81)
	at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.builder.singlethreaded.SingleThreadedBuilder.build(SingleThreadedBuilder.java:56)
	at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleStarter.execute(LifecycleStarter.java:128)
	at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:305)
	at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:192)
	at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:105)
	at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.execute(MavenCli.java:956)
	at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.doMain(MavenCli.java:288)
	at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:192)
	at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
	at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
	at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:566)
	at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:289)
	at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:229)
	at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:415)
	at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:356)
Caused by: org.eclipse.jgit.errors.TransportException: [email protected]:retest/surili.git: USERAUTH fail
	at org.eclipse.jgit.transport.JschConfigSessionFactory.getSession(JschConfigSessionFactory.java:182)
	at org.eclipse.jgit.transport.SshTransport.getSession(SshTransport.java:140)
	at org.eclipse.jgit.transport.TransportGitSsh$SshFetchConnection.<init>(TransportGitSsh.java:280)
	at org.eclipse.jgit.transport.TransportGitSsh.openFetch(TransportGitSsh.java:170)
	at org.eclipse.jgit.api.LsRemoteCommand.execute(LsRemoteCommand.java:200)
	... 28 more
Caused by: com.jcraft.jsch.JSchException: USERAUTH fail
	at com.jcraft.jsch.UserAuthPublicKey.start(UserAuthPublicKey.java:119)
	at com.jcraft.jsch.Session.connect(Session.java:470)
	at org.eclipse.jgit.transport.JschConfigSessionFactory.getSession(JschConfigSessionFactory.java:136)
	... 32 more

And when I check that SSH connection via ssh -T [email protected], everything is fine.

[danielflower]

I can't reproduce. Can someone please run with debug logs enabled and provide them? mvn -X releaser:release

[danielflower]

Also you could try specifying the path to the private key. See http://danielflower.github.io/multi-module-maven-release-plugin/ssh-authentication.html

Note that from 3.0.2 HTTPS is also supported if that's easier.