Local Connect with WP Engine setup/pull fails on Linux

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Bug Summary

After adding a WP Engine host in Local Connect, pull operations fail.

Steps to reproduce

  1. Running on Linux (or I suspect Mac as well), set up Local connect with a WP Engine host.
  2. Attempt to pull a site.
  3. Observe that no files are synchronised, the database is not synchronised, and there are errors in your local logs.

Environment Info

Local 6.7.1+6369
Ubuntu 22.04LTS

Supporting info

Log of symptoms:

{"thread":"main","class":"DevKitService","message":"wpe_cli+rsync+pull+REDACTED@REDACTED.ssh.wpengine.net: Permission denied (publickey).\r\n","level":"warn","timestamp":"2023-05-11T15:02:39.203Z"}
{"thread":"main","class":"DevKitService","message":"rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [Receiver]\nrsync error: unexplained error (code 255) at io.c(231) [Receiver=3.2.7]\n","level":"warn","timestamp":"2023-05-11T15:02:39.205Z"}
{"thread":"main","class":"DevKitService","message":"wpe_cli+db+pull+REDACTED@REDACTED.ssh.wpengine.net: Permission denied (publickey).\r\n","level":"warn","timestamp":"2023-05-11T15:02:40.634Z"}
{"thread":"main","class":"WPEPullService","message":{"error":{"errno":-2,"code":"ENOENT","syscall":"open","path":"/home/REDACTED/Local Sites/REDACTED/app/public/.wpengine-conf/wp-config-site.php"},"eventId":"dcf1f918d6824e6da2bfcf9db9ee72bf"},"level":"error","timestamp":"2023-05-11T15:02:40.667Z"}

Log of cause (observed when removing & re-adding a new WPEngine host to Local Connect)

{"thread":"main","class":"SSHKeyService","errno":-2,"code":"ENOENT","syscall":"open","path":"%%userDataPath%%/ssh/wpe-connect.pub","level":"warn","message":"Error reading SSH public key file: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '%%userDataPath%%/ssh/wpe-connect.pub'","stack":"Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '%%userDataPath%%/ssh/wpe-connect.pub'","timestamp":"2023-05-11T15:06:42.619Z"}

Attempting to open “%%userDataPath%%” on a Linux machine seems highly suspect.

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Never mind - the error message about being unable to read the key was a red herring. This turned out to be the problem from this problem with WPEngine’s ssh pubkey algorithms

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Thank you for following up with your resolution @angery!