Vagrant Error - Can't Read SSH Key

Hey, have you made changes to homestead.yaml to reflect the correct path to your SSH key? The correct path should be something like :

/Users/YOUR_USERNAME/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

since you have a fresh install, you may have missed doing that.

Oh, sorry, should have included that: here is the beginning of my YML file:

---
ip: "192.168.10.10"
memory: 2048
cpus: 1

authorize: ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

keys:
  - ~/.ssh/id_rsa

folders:
[...]

This is in accordance with the latest update made to homestead: https://github.com/laravel/homestead/commit/a977a4c9cac2c3d228db46f594476a9662851381

Any reason why that shouldn't work?

OK, found the problem: apparently I had an OLD version of homestead on my machine, and updating the homestead.rb file fixed the problem.

I think you need to add the user to the path that you specified in the YAML file as @PratyushPundir told you.

Using ~ to indicate your home directory is a better approach and will work in teams. Although not sure how it will work on windows -- if homestead can even be installed on Windows?

I agree strongly with @mikebronner. Using ~/ to refer to your home folder is definitely the way to go for Team Devs. Great to be aware of the issue and it's fix.

Hi @mikebronner I installed on a Windows PC and the unique issue that I had the VirtualBox issue that I commented here some days ago.

It was fixed with the test version installed.

If you have a problem with your keys you may generate those using the cmd command as follow:

ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "your@email.com"

And then you need to reference the full path to this folder, if I don't remember bad:

C:/users/[your_username]/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

Hope it helps you.

Thanks @codeatbusiness, good to know for the windows users out there. I guess they will be out of luck in a team environment. :) I guess if its a pure windows team, they could use something like:

%USERPROFILE%/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

However, was just reading that Ruby will interpret the "~" home path indicator correctly in Windows as well, so using ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub should still work in homestead on Windows. Can someone verify?

Yeah @mikebronner, I was searching about a mask for the user path.

Another question, did you enabled Virtualization Technology in your BIOS system before install your Vagrant enviroment?

@codeatbusiness: I'm running mac, so no need. :) I'm just following through on the chain of thought for Windows users.

Ok :) thanks I'm using a Windows 8 OS system and every installation is a headache.

Have you tried using the tilde (~) to indicate your home directory in Homestead.yaml? Would be interested to see if it works for you. According to StackExchange (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4190930/cross-platform-means-of-getting-users-home-directory-in-ruby) it should.

(Be sure to update your other homestead files as well, as i found out the hard way!) :)

Yes @mikebronner, the path as you specified works fine for me.

I use the following vagrant.yaml file:

ip: "192.168.10.10"
memory: 2048
cpus: 1

authorize: ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

keys:
    - ~/.ssh/id_rsa

folders:
    - map: ~/Desktop/code/
      to: /home/vagrant/code/

sites:
    - map: project.app:8000
      to: /home/vagrant/code/Project/public

variables:
    - key: APP_ENV
      value: local

Hope it helps you.

Nice, thanks for confirming. :)

You are welcome! :)

@mikebronner - It doesn't work on Macs either if you don't update your Homestead repo. Thanks for bringing it up.