How to specify multiline secret values?

[oerp-odoo]

I have secret SSH_PRIVATE_KEY to get access to some private repos. How can I specify it via .secrets file?

This one does not work obviously:

SSH_PRIVATE_KEY=-----BEGIN OPENSSH PRIVATE KEY-----
blaabla
-----END OPENSSH PRIVATE KEY-----

And then I get: FATA[0000] Error loading from /mypath/.secrets: Can't separate key from value

[ChristopherHX]

See wiki https://github.com/nektos/act/wiki/Beginner's-guide#envsecrets-files-structure.

godotenv, I would prefer yaml over the current syntax...

[oerp-odoo]

@ChristopherHX Am I doing it incorrectly?

I tried:

SSH_PRIVATE_KEY=-----BEGIN OPENSSH PRIVATE KEY-----\nsomething\nsomething2\nsomething3\nsomething4\nsomething5=\n-----END OPENSSH PRIVATE KEY-----

But then I get:

| Error loading key "(stdin)": invalid format
[xxx]   ❗  ::error::Command failed: ssh-add -%0AError loading key "(stdin)": invalid format%0A
[xxx]   ❌  Failure - Main Create private key to access private repos.
[xxx] exitcode '1': failure

[ChristopherHX]

Missing double quotes? Or just a bad example of your secrets file? The wiki has correct examples.
e.g.

SSH_PRIVATE_KEY="-----BEGIN OPENSSH PRIVATE KEY-----\nsomething\nsomething2\nsomething3\nsomething4\nsomething5=\n-----END OPENSSH PRIVATE KEY-----"

How are you calling ssh-add -? Just that I have a chance to test myself.

[oerp-odoo]

Thanks, yeah I was missing quotes..:)

Im calling it using this:

      - name: Create private key to access private repos.
        uses: webfactory/[email protected]
        with:
          ssh-private-key: ${{ secrets.SSH_PRIVATE_KEY }}