Failed to create file system for "XXXXX": failed to parse private key file: ssh: key is not password protected

Hi

I have been using this command for couple week without any issue (with the exact SSH keys and the remote) . Today it started throwing this error. I updated Debian today and I saw that there was an update to Rclone today. So I am just wondering if the current update borked this setup.

What is the problem you are having with rclone?

Failed to create file system for "XX5XX": failed to parse private key file: ssh: key is not password protected

What is your rclone version (output from rclone version)

rclone v1.50.2

  • os/arch: linux/amd64
  • go version: go1.14.4

Which OS you are using and how many bits (eg Windows 7, 64 bit)

Debian Testing x64

Which cloud storage system are you using? (eg Google Drive)

Sftp

The command you were trying to run (eg rclone copy /tmp remote:tmp)

rclone sync -P --verbose --no-update-modtime  local:/mnt/mount/ XXXXX

The rclone config contents with secrets removed.

Paste config here

A log from the command with the -vv flag

Failed to create file system for "XXXXX": failed to parse private key file: ssh: key is not password protected

Alright, this was a total borked update from Debian then. I installed 1.52 from the Github and the error disappeared.

This was fixed in 5f822f2660b24cf600b79c17b393e0e643c887ea which was released in v1.51.0 so you just got unlucky I think!

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