Does it work with SSH Agent?

[ybushev]

Hey, I'm trying to clone project from GitHub using ssh agent authentication:

execSync(`ssh-agent -s -a "/tmp/ssh-agent.socket"`, { uid: UID })

export const GitClient = simpleGit({
  baseDir: USER_DIRECTORY,
  spawnOptions: {
    uid: UID
  }
}).env('SSH_AUTH_SOCK', '/tmp/ssh-agent.socket');

But got the error:

message: "Cloning into '/home/user/test_pub_10'...
Warning: Permanently added the RSA host key for IP address '140.82.113.4' to the list of known hosts.
Load key "/home/user/.ssh/id_rsa": invalid format
git@github.com: Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists."

When I'm trying to run the git client from a console using the same user it's working great:

[web]$ ssh -T git@github.com
Hi ybushev! You've successfully authenticated, but GitHub does not provide shell access.

What I missed? Thanks!

[stepjacky]

by the way .another question. how to do same things on windows

[danikane]

by the way .another question. how to do same things on windows

Better use WSL for your development workflows.

[steveukx]

This is likely caused by insufficient environment variables being copied over from your script, the environment variables documentation shows how to copy across all variables from the outer environment with overrides.