Capistrano asks for password when deploying, despite SSH keys

Question

My ssh keys are definitely set up correctly, as I\'m never prompted for the password when using ssh. But capistrano still asks for a password when deploying with cap d

Answer 1

Executing ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa in my local machine fixed the issue for me. It seemed that the ssh command line tool wasn't detecting my identity when called with Capistrano.