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Clarify that SSH keys must not have passphrases in docs

#201

Hi,

Having just started out with RunDeck, I stumbled for a while into a confusing problem, which could be easily avoided by a simple message in the docs.

My SSH key (id_rsa) had a passphrase. When running commands via the web interface, I got a weird error message about groovy missing an Execution tag. When running via the CLI tools, I was told I needed a id_dsa key (not DSA not RSA)... The solution was simply to remove my passphrase.

May I suggest you add this in this chapter: http://rundeck.org/docs/RunDeck-Guide.html#configuring-remote-machi... ?

Thanks for the great work!

Reported by Jonathan Clarke · February 12th, 2011 @ 05:14 AM

State: new
Milestone: none
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  1. Olivier Le Cam
    Olivier Le Cam

    Hi -

    I also faced quite the same problem. The manual claims that an RSA key is mandatory although it is a DSA one which is actually awaited. Here is the fail message which gave me a clue on what was going wrong:

    Some steps in the workflow failed: [Step 1 failed: com.dtolabs.rundeck.core.tasks.net.SSHTaskBuilder$BuilderException: SSH Keyfile, /home/olecam/.ssh/id_dsa, does not exist and is needed: /home/olecam/.ssh/id_dsa]

    Hope that helps other new comers in rundeck as I. :)

    Thanks and best regards,

    Olivier

    March 2nd, 2011 @ 01:41 AM

  2. Greg Schueler
    Greg Schueler
    • Tag set to documentation
    • Milestone set to Rundeck 1.2
    • Assigned user set to Alex-SF
    • Milestone order changed from 11 to 0

    additional dsa/rsa confusion shown here: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rundeck-discuss/x5c4QFt2Tbw/zeKWqcW...

    Docs should clarify default is DSA, and have no passphrase

    March 2nd, 2011 @ 11:48 AM

  3. Deleted User
    Deleted User
    • State changed from new to resolved

    March 14th, 2011 @ 05:43 PM

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