Gcloud ssh permission denied after running command

Question

I receive Permission denied (publickey,gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic). ERROR: (gcloud.compute.ssh) [/usr/bin/ssh] exited with return code [255].

error after I run: gcloud compute ssh instance-1 --zone us-east1-d --command "tar -xf archive.tar"

I can run --command "ls -al" which is fine.

Answer 1

Looks like the user you're ssh-ing as can't run the command. If that's the case when you run gcloud compute ssh instance-1 --zone us-east1-d and issue command tar -xf archive.tar you should see the same error. Do you?

Answer 2

Did a work around. Instead of using tar I send the folder as is upon user request.