Not working with NPM?

[arctic-ice-cool]

We have multiple private repositories across both Composer and NPM. I set this up and it pretty much instantly started working with Composer - however I can't get it to work with NPM - no matter which format I place within the dependency in package.json (HTTP, git, git+ssh etc)

Is this possible with this package?

[joshbradfield-kiwirail]

I also have not got this to work with NPM.

When I test with git git ls-remote git@github.[redacted]/[redacted].git i get :

Warning: Permanently added the ECDSA host key for IP address '140.82.112.3' to the list of known hosts.
b6bd4fedc4[28](https://github.com/[redacted]/[redacted]/runs/8050362856?check_suite_focus=true#step:6:29)007d898b5f5d5b3f5f502bf7d180	HEAD
b6bd4fedc428007d898b5f5d5b3f5f502bf7d180	refs/heads/main
2a525e53557497744e6774604aae71b1a87775a7	refs/tags/v0.0.6
b6bd4fedc428007d898b5f5d5b3f5f502bf7d180	refs/tags/v0.0.6^{}

But when I try to use NPM on the same repository npm view git@github.com:[redacted]/[redacted].git:

npm ERR! code 128
npm ERR! An unknown git error occurred
npm ERR! command git --no-replace-objects ls-remote ssh://git@github.com/[redacted]/dd-[redacted].git
npm ERR! ssh: Could not resolve hostname key-7229bcc530b8030b34688f3e951db9e6114e46db8832365ede2298bfbbd153fe.github.com: Name or service not known
npm ERR! fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Please make sure you have the correct access rights
npm ERR! and the repository exists.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /github/home/.npm/_logs/2022-08-27T12_34_11_502Z-debug.log
Error: Process completed with exit code 128.

There doesn't seem to be much online, except one person posting that they think NPM and ssh-agent don't play nicely together npm/cli#2614 (though rejected out of hand by the NPM team, so maybe its a conflict somewhere?)

[joshbradfield-kiwirail]

I tested two different environments, seems to work as expected under the windows env but not ubuntu

• 'windows-latest' ✔
  • keys added and mapped ✔
  • git ls-remote ✔
  • npm view ✔
• 'ubuntu-latest'❌
  • keys added and mapped ✔
  • git ls-remote ✔
  • npm view ❌

[arctic-ice-cool]

I have been trying all sorts for days to get this working, it just doesn’t work with NPM 😞

[joshbradfield-kiwirail]

I have been trying all sorts for days to get this working, it just doesn’t work with NPM 😞

What environment are you use? ubuntu-latest or windows-latest?

[arctic-ice-cool]

What environment are you use? ubuntu-latest or windows-latest?

ubuntu-22.04

[arctic-ice-cool]

It's like NPM just isn't using the SSH-agent, from what I can gather. NPM should do though, as it works on Windows as you say, just not in Github Actions on Ubuntu 22.04...

[mpdude]

How do you specify the package source in your package.json?

[arctic-ice-cool]

How do you specify the package source in your package.json?

Literally every possible way to reference a package source I can think of. Including changing git@github.com to <username>@github.com!

Current method that I gave up on:

git+ssh://git@github.com/organization/package-name.git

[mpdude]

Can you set the environment variable as described here?

https://askubuntu.com/a/620985

Maybe that can give us a little bit more insight what’s going on under the hood?

[mpdude]

For the record, I was able to clone a private repo on my personal machine with a package URL like git+ssh://git@github.com/../....git.

When I unset the SSH_AUTH_SOCK environment variable, which is needed to find the local SSH agent, this no longer works. So, npm must be using the agent under the hood, although I do not know whether it shells out to a regular git and/or ssh command under the hood, or what part of those it implements natively.

$ npm -v
8.15.0

[arctic-ice-cool]

It just gives this output:

npm ERR! code E401
npm ERR! Incorrect or missing password.
npm ERR! If you were trying to login, change your password, create an
npm ERR! authentication token or enable two-factor authentication then
npm ERR! that means you likely typed your password in incorrectly.
npm ERR! Please try again, or recover your password at:
npm ERR!     https://www.npmjs.com/forgot
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! If you were doing some other operation then your saved credentials are
npm ERR! probably out of date. To correct this please try logging in again with:
npm ERR!     npm login

But this isn't an npm auth failure, it's a failure to access a private GitHub repo - but composer authenticates fine using this SSH Agent - just not NPM 🤔

[skinofstars]

Hey, just throwing a +1 on this. Still having the issue today. Has anyone found a workaround?

[arctic-ice-cool]

Still having this issue too 🫤

[mpdude]

When you set the GIT_SSH_COMMAND="ssh -vvv" env var while running npm, does that produce any useful debugging output?