SSH Error: "Unable to load RSA key." #55

h4cc · 2014-06-20T09:01:47Z

I tried to deploy with pomander, but it fails with my working SSH Key. A plain ssh login works.

Error message:

 * abort ssh Unable to load RSA key.

Tried against ǜersion "pomander/pomander": "dev-master".

The head of my private key:

$ cat .ssh/id_rsa
-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
Proc-Type: 4,ENCRYPTED
DEK-Info: AES-128-CBC,E731CBEFD26F9C7560C79A3E7C53C516

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tamagokun · 2014-06-20T10:58:34Z

Are you specifying a key path in your configuration? It might be a good idea to add something like this t your config to see the exact location of where Pomander is looking for your key:

<?php

after('app', function($app) {
  info('key_path', $app->env->key_path);
});

tamagokun · 2014-06-23T21:54:00Z

@h4cc hey did you ever get this sorted out?

h4cc · 2014-06-25T21:10:31Z

@tamagokun I did some more tests and found this out:

A newly generated key that WORKS looks like this:

But my personal key has two more lines at the top, like this and des NOT work.

Hope this helps.

tamagokun · 2014-06-25T21:35:00Z

Interesting. This might be a limitation of PHPseclib, whinc is used to handle all the SSH stuff.—
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@tamagokun I did some more tests and found this out:
A newly generated key that WORKS looks like this:

But my personal key has two more lines at the top, like this and des NOT work.

Hope this helps.

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tamagokun · 2014-07-07T11:43:44Z

Those 2 additional lines are there because there is a pass phrase associated with your private key. Phpseclib can definitely parse a key with those lines in it, so my first guess would be that your pass phrase is incorrect.

tamagokun · 2014-07-07T11:46:31Z

If you could set up an example using phpseclib like this:

<?php
require 'vendor/autoload.php';

$rsa = new Crypt_RSA();

$rsa->setPassword('my passphrase');
$rsa->loadKey(file_get_contents('/path/to/keys/id_rsa'));

print_r($rsa);

and show me what gets printed, that might help narrow things down. If the key is getting loaded correctly and still isn't working, but you can connect over ssh from the command line, then this is most definitely a bug with phpseclib that should be reported.

h4cc · 2014-07-07T20:17:08Z

@tamagokun I tried using a password for my private key and your guess seem to be right.
My ssh key might be unlocked since system login and stored inside a ssh-agent process.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

tamagokun added the bug label Jun 20, 2014

tamagokun removed the bug label Jun 24, 2014

h4cc closed this as completed Jul 7, 2014

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SSH Error: "Unable to load RSA key." #55

SSH Error: "Unable to load RSA key." #55

h4cc commented Jun 20, 2014

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tamagokun commented Jun 25, 2014

Hope this helps.

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h4cc commented Jul 7, 2014

SSH Error: "Unable to load RSA key." #55

SSH Error: "Unable to load RSA key." #55

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tamagokun commented Jun 25, 2014

Hope this helps.

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