Jenkins Publish over ssh authentification failed with private key

Question

I can authenticate successfully with putty on the server with my private key and passphrase. But when I try to do it with jenkins publish o

Answer 1

Looks like you're using keyfile authentication, so you'll get this error from Jenkins if you haven't set the permissions correctly on your .ssh folder and/or ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file.

• the .ssh folder should have drwx------ permissions (read/write/execute owner only)
• the authorized_keys file should have -rw------- permissions (read/write owner only)

To fix it:

chmod 700 ~/.ssh
chmod 600 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys