***@***: Permission denied (publickey).

[Kenyon Kowal]

Does the key need to be the contents of the ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub on your local machine?

Load key "/github/home/.ssh/deploy_key": invalid format
***@***: Permission denied (publickey)

[Kenyon Kowal]

    - name: ls -a via ssh
      uses: fifsky/ssh-action@master
      with:
        host: ${{ secrets.FORGE_HOST }}
        user: ${{ secrets.FORGE_USERNAME }}
        port: 22
        key: "${{ secrets.SSH_PRIVATE_KEY}}"
        command: |
          ls -a

[Xudong Cai]

key is private ~/.ssh/id_rsa

[Yakov Litvin]

Could you please explain what exactly were you doing wrong and how did you fix it? I'm trying to use private key (from ~/.ssh/id_rsa) as a secret passed to key, but I do get the

@: Permission denied (publickey).

error message