sshj example of private/public key authentication

Question

Can anyone give me an example of private/public key authentication in sshj?

In sshj what's the command line equivalent of,

ssh -i /path/to/mykey.private username@host

I tried (error handling omitted),

final SSHClient ssh = new SSHClient();
ssh.loadKnownHosts();
ssh.connect("host");
ssh.authPublickey("username", "/path/to/mykey.private");
final Session session = ssh.startSession();
...

but in the log statements I see,

DEBUG net.schmizz.sshj.SSHClient - Attempting to load key from: /path/to/mykey.private
WARN  net.schmizz.sshj.SSHClient - Could not load keys due to: {}
net.schmizz.sshj.common.SSHException: No provider available forUnknown key file
    at net.schmizz.sshj.SSHClient.loadKeys(SSHClient.java:482) ~[sshj-0.3.0.jar:na]
...
Exception in thread "main" 10:49:55.943 [reader] DEBUG
net.schmizz.sshj.transport.Reader - Stopping
net.schmizz.sshj.userauth.UserAuthException: Exhausted available authentication methods

Thanks, Everett

Answer 1

Sounds like your private key isn't being loaded? Did you check that the permissions on it are correct, and that you have the correct path?

Also, note, looks like your argument to ssh.authPublickey should be a string, and at least in the code you pasted, it's not?

Answer 2

Answered on the sshj google group. It's probably a bug with the library.