Error: config.privateKey does not exist at given fs path

[julesghub]

I'm getting:
Error: config.privateKey does not exist at given fs path

when I use the privateKey / passphase authenication in the following action step.

    - name: ls on gadi
      uses: garygrossgarten/github-action-ssh@release
      with:
        command: ls -a
        host: "gadi.nci.org.au"
        username: ${{ secrets.GADI_UNAME }}
        #password: ${{ secrets.GADI_PWORD }}
        privateKey: ${{ secrets.GADI_PRIVATE_KEY }}
        passphrase: ${{ secrets.GADI_PASSPHRASE }}

What does this mean?
Ideas on how I can fix it?

Note, when I use GADI_PWORD my action runs as expected.

cheers,
J

[dariodjuric]

The underlying library that this action uses is node-ssh. This library expects a private key with a specific string pattern, or a file that contains the private key. Are you sure you are using a proper private key?

[ridwankustanto]

@julesghub did you solve this? I got same issue here. I followed the example here.

[marv1913]

@julesghub I had the same problem. I copied the private key without the "-----BEGIN OPENSSH PRIVATE KEY-----" and end part of the key file. After copying the whole content of the key file it was working.

[garygrossgarten]

@julesghub @ridwankustanto Did you resolve your issues? @marv1913 is correct. You need to copy the whole contents of your private key file to make it work. Closing this issue for now. Feel free to open it again if you still have issues.