Capistrano SSH::AuthenticationFailed, not prompting for password

Question

I\'ve been using capistrano successfully for a while now and all of a sudden in every project I\'ve lost the ability to deploy.

Environment:

• os X (Mave

Answer 1

set :ssh_options, {
 verbose: :debug
}

... helps a lot!

I had an issue that I generated my public and private keys with puttygen and exported private key as OpenSSH with name .id_rsa. An then saved public key with name .id_rsa.pub.

( ! ) The public key puttygen saves is in RFC 4716 format not PEM. Use public suffix instead of pub for public key file-