Bitbucket Cloud Pipe "atlassian/scp-deploy" error - "Load key /root/.ssh/pipelines_id: invalid format"
Platform Notice: Cloud Only - This article only applies to Atlassian products on the cloud platform.
Summary
Bitbucket Cloud Pipe provides an alternate SSH_KEY to use instead of the key configured in the Bitbucket Pipelines admin screens, which is used by default.
Example:
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- pipe: atlassian/scp-deploy:1.2.1
variables:
USER: '<string>'
SERVER: '<string>'
REMOTE_PATH: '<string>'
LOCAL_PATH: '<string>'
SSH_KEY: '<string>' # Optional.Sometimes the Pipe will fail with 'Load key "/root/.ssh/pipelines_id": an invalid format error as shown below:
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debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
debug1: Trying private key: /root/.ssh/pipelines_id
Load key "/root/.ssh/pipelines_id": invalid format
debug1: No more authentication methods to try.
mdo-bitbucket@xx.xx.xx.xx: Permission denied (publickey,gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic).Solution
As stated in the altassian/ssh-run pipe documentation, the alternative SSH_KEY should be base64 encoded as per the instructions given in theusing multiple ssh keys documentation, which should fix the "invalid format" error.
Updated on February 25, 2025
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