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nysus has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I'm stumped trying to figure out how to use Rex to log into a remote server. The server provides me with a .pem file. I have successfully used this file to log in manually using ssh -i PEM_FILE_NAME blah@111.222.222.123.

I tried converting it to public key with ssh-keygen -y -f PEM_FILE_NAME > public.key and have the following in my RexFile: 

Rex::connect(
  server => '111.222.222.123',
  user => 'my_user_name',
  public_key => '/home/my_user_name/public.key',
);

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But this isn't working. Not sure what else to try. Thanks.

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Re: Connecting to remote server with Rex using .pem file
by nysus (Parson) on Apr 07, 2020 at 15:44 UTC

    Solved

    Put this in the Rexfile: 

    user 'my_user_name';
private_key '/home/my_user_name/keyfile.pem';
key_auth;

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    Run like so from command line: rex -H 111.222.222.123 <task_name>

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