Hi there. Need a bit of direction. Trying to allow for ssh connection via the Balena CLI. documentation doe snot provide how to create key. I have created keys, but get a error stating: "should match pattern “^(ssh-rsa|ssh-dss|ssh-ed25519|ecdsa-sha2-nistp256|ecdsa-sha2-nistp384|ecdsa-sha2-nistp…

Hi, It is expecting your public key in the format used by OpenSSH, rather than PuTTY (SSH2 format). You should be able to convert it, using ssh-keygen -i -f <ssh2 keyfile>.pub You may also need to convert your key to OpenSSH (in puttygen: Conversions > Export OpenSSH) before exporting your public…

Thanks @TJvV !!! That seems to have worked.

[image] TJvV: ssh-keygen -i -f .pub i try to do the same got error: do_convert_from_ssh2: base64 decoding failed: invalid format

Hi, It sounds to me like you might be trying to convert a wrong type of key. This is the same error you get when trying to convert a key that’s already in the right format. Which format does your public key have? If it already looks something like ssh-rsa single-line-base64-key-string comment, y…

hmm, I just experienced an issue with ssh rsa keys today. One of my devices is still using that old key but it no longer worked. If I try to delete and re-add the key, it complains about a pattern not matching. I had to update that to ed25519 instead. Either rsa is no longer supported or there is a…

Hi, Can you maybe make a new thread for this issue? Makes it easier to keep track of things that are solved and not.

Unable to add SSH key

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dtcsight November 19, 2022, 5:37pm 10

Done. ssh-rsa keys broke

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Unable to add SSH key

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