SSH Deployer key based authentication not working

First things first: Thanks for this great plugin!

There seems to be a bug with SSH Deployer authentication when using SSH keys. Password authentication works fine, however, when selecting "Default Private Key" I can not enter a username with which to authenticate with the server (even if using a default private key, it's still mandatory for authentication to specify the user that should be used on the remote host).

It is also not possible to circumvent that problem by selecting "Custom Private Key" (with this it is possible to specify a user name) as the path to the "custom identity file" is incorrectly resolved. It always tries to find the path one specifies relative the to buildagent work dir instead of the home dir and it is not possible to specify an absolute path either as that always just get's appended to the current working dir. Hence, specifying something like ~/.ssh/id_rsa does not work. Using %agent.home.dir% doesn't work either (appends the home dir to the temp dir).

Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/nskvortsov/deployer/issue/23
Originally reported by: Sebastian Siemssen
Originally created at: 2014-01-07T14:29:06.547

JetBrains / teamcity-deployer-plugin

SSH Deployer key based authentication not working #23