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Dibly
Dibly

Reputation: 55

Using SSH keyfile with Netbeans for remote development

I want to do remote development on a raspberry pi using Netbeans IDE. Everything works fine when using password based authentication. When I try to use SSH key based authentication, the Netbeans 12 IDE reports

Contents of file /Users/me/.ssh/id_rsa is not a valid ssh private key.

My host system is MacOS and I generated the SSH key pair using the command ssh-keygen without any additional parameters and setting no pass phrase.

Contents of the file is :

-----BEGIN OPENSSH PRIVATE KEY-----
LOTS OF RANDOM TEXT HERE
-----END OPENSSH PRIVATE KEY-----

I'm also able to ssh into the remote machine using a terminal just fine without a password.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2041

Answers (1)

VonC
VonC

Reputation: 1324737

Try and regenerate your key (and register the public key again to the remote server authorized_keys) using the old PEM format:

ssh-keygen -m PEM -P "" -t rsa

See if Netbeans does recognize this format then.

Upvotes: 4

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