Authentication failed for user

[JohnMerlino2]

I am able to ssh into my ec2 instance with my user without issue. However, when I try it with capistrano, I get errors:

cap staging deploy:setup

cap aborted!
SSHKit::Runner::ExecuteError: Exception while executing as myuser@ec2-xx-xxx-xxx-xx.compute-1.amazonaws.com: Authentication failed for user myuser@ec2-xx-xxx-xxx-xx.compute-1.amazonaws.com

Net::SSH::AuthenticationFailed: Authentication failed for user myuser@ec2-xx-xxx-xxx-xx.compute-1.amazonaws.com

I have the following in staging.rb:

server 'ec2-xx-xxx-xxx-xx.compute-1.amazonaws.com',
user: 'myuser',
roles: %w{web db},
ssh_options: {
keys: %w("/home/myuser/.aws/aws_myuser/myuser-key-pair-useast.pem"),
forward_agent: false,
auth_methods: %w(publickey)
}

Yet without capistrano, no issue:

ssh -i ~/.aws/aws_myuser/myuser-key-pair-useast.pem myuser@ec2-xx-xxx-xxx-xx.compute-1.amazonaws.com

Why is this happening? It is really time-consuming trying to figure this out.

[leehambley]

Please try setting your SSH options in a .ssh/config file for the host, to rule out the parsing of the options you have passed via this hash to the server … option... I believe you are using v2x syntax with v3 and thus your input is doing nothing.

• https://github.com/capistrano/sshkit#tunneling-and-other-related-ssh-themes

Please stick to the input template for new issues in future, it includes information we require to be able to help you.

[mattbrictson]

%w("/home/myuser/.aws/aws_myuser/myuser-key-pair-useast.pem")

Looks like you have a typo here. This is probably what you want (remove the quotes):

%w(/home/myuser/.aws/aws_myuser/myuser-key-pair-useast.pem)

[mattbrictson]

@JohnMerlino2 I assume this is resolved. Closing.