Bitbucket pipeline scp ignores user in deployment variable or statically entered. Always uses root

[Alex De Smet]

Hi,

I have a build pipeline which copies a tar.gz file at the end by using scp. I have added the SSH key of the user "deploy" to the settings, and the fingerprint of the server was added to the known_hosts.

I then created a deployment with a variable DEPLOY_USER with a value "deploy". This variable is populated correctly. The thing is, this setup works for a couple of times. After a while, I can't seem to pinpoint exactly when, the scp step fails. When this happens, I see the user root being used (which has no ssh access).

This happened on two of my pipelines in seperate projects, with seperate users.

I have added a screenshot to clarify the problem.

Update: I have tried:

• removing and adding the known_hosts entry
• removing and adding the ssh keys
• replacing the variable with the user hard-coded deploy@...

Didn't help.

Any ideas?

Alex

[Alex De Smet · Accepted solution]

I've found a workaround.

Recreating the deployment variable isn't enough. I had to completely remove the Deployment (Settings > Deployments), recreate it and add the variables again.

I think the cause may have been a change in the IP-address of the server (scp destination). In both the projects where I had this problem, I changed the known_hosts and one of the deployment variables (DEPLOY_HOST). But I can't reproduce at the time