Cannot parse privateKey: Unsupported key format about node-scp2 HOT 5 OPEN

This is not a bug. You should use:

client.scp({
host: '*',
username: '',
privateKey: fs.readFileSync('~/.ssh/user'),
path: ***************************
}, *******************************,
function(err){
if (err){
console.log(err);
}
});

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Thank you @geovanneb, your solution worked for mу. However, instead of ~/.ssh/id_rsa I had to write path like /Users/sergey/.ssh/id_rsa. For some reason fs did not recognize ~ correctly

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I tried using exact path @geovanneb, here is my code

test.scp("***************************", { host: "localhost", username: "********", port: "2223", privateKey: fs.readFileSync('/home/***********/xyz.key'), path: ".", }, (err) => { console.log(err); });

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@SergeyMell, the problem you encountered is not specific to this library, but rather node.js. You can test with this simple code:

const fs = require('fs')
console.log(fs.readFileSync('~/test-file.txt').toString()) // this would throw error

You can use the solution in this SO entry to work around that problem.

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	scpclient.scp({
		host,
		port,
		username,
		privateKey: require('fs').readFileSync(SSH_KEY_PATH),
		passphrase,
		path,
	}, dest);

same error, console.log(require('fs').readFileSync(SSH_KEY_PATH)) gives a Buffer

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