Force Capistrano to ask for password

Posted by Moshe Katz on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Moshe Katz
Published on 2012-08-29T02:55:29Z Indexed on 2012/08/29 3:40 UTC
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I am deploying using Capistrano to a new server and having the following issue. Currently, I cannot add an SSH key to the server to log in with so I must use password authentication. However, I do have a key for another server saved in my local user account's .ssh directory.

Here is the error I get when I try to log in:

C:\Web\CampMaRabu>cap deploy:setup
  * executing `deploy:setup'
  * executing "mkdir -p /home2/webapp1 /home2/webapp1/releases /home2/webapp1/shared /home2/webapp1/shared/system /home2/webapp1/shared/log /home2/webapp1/shared/pids"
    servers: ["myserver.example.com"]

connection failed for: myserver.example.com (OpenSSL::PKey::PKeyError: not a public key "C:/Users/MyAccount/.ssh/id_rsa.pub")

How can I get Capistrano to ignore the existence of the key I have and let me log in with a password instead? I tried adding set :password, "myp@ssw0rd" to deploy.rb and it didn't help.

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