unsupported key type "RSA PRIVATE KEY" passed with the PEM

btruong
btruong
Community Member
in SSH

Hi team,

I'm having some issues with retrieving my SSH keys via the CLI.

When I attempt to get a specific SSH Key item using the following command:

op item get 5rxxwsxxxdk2ywjvxxx4bxxq

I get the following error:

[ERROR] 2023/10/28 10:54:01 unsupported key type "RSA PRIVATE KEY" passed with the PEM

I checked through the forums and seems like a number of people are having the same issue. This is a blocker for my workflow as I rely on 1Password to store all my SSH private keys and the CLI to retrieve them securely as part of a CI/CD process.

I don't know when this started but it seems to be one of the later CLI versions, as I never had this issue earlier.

Even when specifying to retrieve only specific fields from the item -- eg op item get xxx --fields label=notesPlain does not seem to be able to pass this specific error.

1Password Version: 8.10.18
Extension Version: Not Provided
OS Version: macOS 14.1
Browser: CLI 2.22.0

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