Capistrano deployment issue

Question

I'm trying to get a Capistrano deployment script working, in my deploy file i have the following...

set :application, "example.com"
role :app, "root@12.34.56.789"
role :web, "root@12.34.56.789"
role :db,  "root@12.34.56.789", :primary => true

set :user, "root"
set :deploy_to, "/example/www/#{application}"
set :deploy_via, :remote_cache
set :use_sudo, false
set :keep_releases, 10

namespace :deploy do
  desc "Tell Passenger to restart the app."
  task :restart do
    run "touch #{current_path}/tmp/restart.txt"
  end

  desc "Symlink shared configs and folders on each release."
  task :symlink_shared do
    run "ln -nfs #{shared_path}/config/database.yml #{release_path}/config/database.yml"
    run "ln -nfs #{shared_path}/assets #{release_path}/public/assets"
  end

  desc "Sync the public/assets directory."
  task :assets do
    system "rsync -vr --exclude='.DS_Store' public/assets #{user}@#{application}:#{shared_path}/"
  end
end

after 'deploy:update_code', 'deploy:symlink_shared'

Also i have a github location and scm variable in the deploy file. When I run cap deploy it starts off ok, asks for a username/password for github private repo, i enter that, its fine. Then after that succeeds and pulls the code correctly I get the folllowing...

executing "if [ -d /example/www/example.com/shared/cached-copy ]; then cd /example/www/example.com/shared/cached-copy && git fetch -q origin && git fetch --tags -q origin && git reset -q --hard 93e3432103327f29a9e66fa2755562bfe9bc4412 && git clean -q -d -x -f; else git clone -q https://github.com/example/example.git /example/www/social u.com/shared/cached-copy && cd /example/www/example.com/shared/cached-copy && git checkout -q -b deploy 93e3432103327f29a9e66fa2755562bfe9bc4412; fi" servers: ["12.34.56.789"] Password:

So it asks for a password. I'm guessing this is for ssh. I enter the password for the root user, but then it fails displaying this...

    [12.34.56.789] executing command
 ** [12.34.56.789 :: err] Username:

I tried also not entering a password at all and I get the following....

Capistrano::ConnectionError, connection failed (Net::SSH::AuthenticationFailed: root)

The catch is I am entering the right ssh password... I can ssh in fine using putty. Btw I am running cap deploy on my local windows pc, and the remote box is a linux box. Of course my location is not 12.34.56.78 but you get the point. Any ideas on how to resolve?

Answer 1

Was able to resolve this by changing the user to not the root user.

Answer 2

You need to be using the SSH url for GitHub, not the https one.