ssh-agent plugin can't find credential specified as parameter

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In the ssh-agent credentials section of my jenkins job, I have two options:

  • Specific credentials
  • Parameter expression

My job works fine when I select Specific credentials, but when I choose Parameter expression, and fill in the value as ${CREDENTIAL_ID}, and run my job with parameter CREDENTIAL_ID=<hex id of credential>, the job dies with this trace:

[WS-CLEANUP] Deleting project workspace... [WS-CLEANUP] Done FATAL: java.io.IOException: [ssh-agent] Could not find specified credentials at com.cloudbees.jenkins.plugins.sshagent.SSHAgentBuildWrapper.preCheckout(SSHAgentBuildWrapper.java:204) at jenkins.scm.SCMCheckoutStrategy.preCheckout(SCMCheckoutStrategy.java:76) at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.run(AbstractBuild.java:528) at hudson.model.Run.execute(Run.java:1738) at hudson.model.FreeStyleBuild.run(FreeStyleBuild.java:43) at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:98) at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:410) FATAL: [ssh-agent] Could not find specified credentials java.io.IOException: [ssh-agent] Could not find specified credentials at com.cloudbees.jenkins.plugins.sshagent.SSHAgentBuildWrapper.preCheckout(SSHAgentBuildWrapper.java:204) at jenkins.scm.SCMCheckoutStrategy.preCheckout(SCMCheckoutStrategy.java:76) at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.run(AbstractBuild.java:528) at hudson.model.Run.execute(Run.java:1738) at hudson.model.FreeStyleBuild.run(FreeStyleBuild.java:43) at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:98) at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:410) Finished: FAILURE

Any idea what might be going on? I'm running Jenkins ver. 1.654, Credentials Binding Plugin 1.6, SSH credentials plugin 1.11, and SSH agent plugin 1.9

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1 Answers

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I was trying to achieve the same thing, using a String Parameter with the credential ID (the hex value, just like you posted in your problem's description).

The issue is that it seems that the Parameter Expression expects you to use a Credential Parameter instead of a String Parameter.

Although it's not exactly how you wanted to use it (you'll have to choose the key from a dropdown list when you trigger a build), changing the parameter type may be a suitable solution for you.