# Capistrano - svn error - Permission denied (publickey)

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/capistrano-svn-error-permission-denied-publickey/141099>\
**Category:** Deployment\
**Created:** [June 22, 2008, 1:19am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/capistrano-svn-error-permission-denied-publickey/141099 "2008-06-22T01:19:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![jimmypalmer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/bbe5ce/32.png) [@jimmypalmer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jimmypalmer)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2008, 1:19am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/capistrano-svn-error-permission-denied-publickey/141099/1 "2008-06-22T01:19:18Z")

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I’m using capistrano to deploy the rails app on my new slicehost server.

It is running this command on the server

svn checkout -q -r2  
svn+ssh://209.20.75.130/home/demo/repository/my\_app/home/demo/public\_html/myapp.com/releases/20080621224919  
&& (echo 2 \>  
/home/demo/public\_html/myapp.com/releases/20080621224919/REVISION)

and i get this error:

Permission denied (publickey)

It’s like it doesn’t have access to itself. What do I need to do here?

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**Author:** ![jimmypalmer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/bbe5ce/32.png) [@jimmypalmer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jimmypalmer)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2008, 11:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/capistrano-svn-error-permission-denied-publickey/141099/2 "2008-06-22T23:09:56Z")

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You need to make sure your target server can ssh to 209.20.75.130 via  
a public key. If you log into your target server and ssh to that IP  
address, do you get prompted for a password?

- Jamis

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**Author:** ![jimmypalmer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/bbe5ce/32.png) [@jimmypalmer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jimmypalmer)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2008, 11:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/capistrano-svn-error-permission-denied-publickey/141099/3 "2008-06-22T23:32:52Z")

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Jamis B. wrote:

> You need to make sure your target server can ssh to 209.20.75.130 via  
> a public key. If you log into your target server and ssh to that IP  
> address, do you get prompted for a password?
> 
> - Jamis

That’s the thing…my target server is 209.20.75.130. My target server  
and my subversion server are one in the same.

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**Author:** ![jimmypalmer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/bbe5ce/32.png) [@jimmypalmer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jimmypalmer)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2008, 11:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/capistrano-svn-error-permission-denied-publickey/141099/4 "2008-06-22T23:45:34Z")

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Jamis B. wrote:

> Then you’ll need to make sure you can ssh to the server, from the  
> server, using your public key.
> 
> - Jamis

ah…yeah…weird. I guess that make sense.

I’m really bad with public key stuff.

thanks

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**Author:** ![jimmypalmer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/bbe5ce/32.png) [@jimmypalmer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jimmypalmer)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2008, 11:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/capistrano-svn-error-permission-denied-publickey/141099/5 "2008-06-22T23:40:58Z")

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Then you’ll need to make sure you can ssh to the server, from the  
server, using your public key.

- Jamis