Public key authorization doesn't work

When i’m using privateKey authorization with passphrase - it works and I see something like that (your uptime example):

Connection :: connect
Connection :: ready
STDOUT:  21:26:40 up 10 days, 14:50,  1 user,  load average: 0.06, 0.03, 0.00

Stream :: EOF
Stream :: exit :: code: 0, signal: undefined
Stream :: close

But when I’m trying to use publicKey, I see something like that:

Connection :: connect
Connection :: end
Connection :: close

Is it possible to authorize using publicKey option?

Node: 0.10.16 npm: 1.3.8

[mscdex]

• For *nix, there’s a couple different ways:

  // option 1 -- this makes the ssh-agent last until your node process exits
  # ssh-agent node foo.js
  // inside foo.js you set `agent: process.env.SSH_AUTH_SOCK` in the object passed to connect()
  
  // option 2 -- this keeps your ssh-agent around until it's killed
  # eval `ssh-agent -s`
  # node foo.js
  // inside foo.js you set `agent: '/tmp/my-ssh-agent'` in the object passed to connect()
  // below command kills the ssh-agent process and removes the unix socket
  # ssh-agent -k
  

• For Windows, just start up pageant (from the putty set of utilities), add your key and then set agent: 'pageant' in the object passed to connect()

[mscdex]

It’s really outside the goals/scope of the project (like ~/.ssh/* file management). Feel free to re-use these functions if you want 😃