pipeline unable to scp; fails with invalid format

[kurianmanavalan]

I have setup a private key/ public key in pipleline setting but pipeline fails wtih error /opt/atlassian/pipelines/agent/ssh/id_rsa_tmp": invalid format..

any clues?

[ktomk · Accepted solution]

Do you want to use the SSH agent? And which guide did you follow to setup the private/public key pair?

From the error message alone it sounds that the private key is not in a format scp does accept. This can have many reasons, perhaps it needs some decoding first?

[kurianmanavalan]

Thank you. I regenerated the keys and it worked. Looks like the format of the keys was the problem 

[Bryson Sullivan]

How did you go about doing that? I am having the same issue here.