Why does "vagrant ssh" work, but PHPStorm 9's "start SSH session" doesn't?

Question

I'm trying to ssh into a Vagrant box inside Mac OSX using PHPStorm 9. It works perfectly from the Terminal or from the command line inside PHPStorm, but PHPStorm's native "Tools -> Start SSH session..." (which should basically do exactly the same: calling "vagrant ssh") does absolutly nothing (no feedback, nothing happens, nothing opens).

Question: Is this a common issue, is something missing, do I have to do some weird configs before ?

Answer 1

This likely happens because PHP Storm is using your default ssh key where it should use the insecure_private_key key from vagrant:

~/.vagrant.d/insecure_private_key

You can either copy your personal public key to the vagrant box

ssh-copy-id -p 2222 vagrant@localhost

(password: vagrant), or (preferred) configure PHPStorm that it uses the vagrant key, like:

ssh -i ~/.vagrant.d/insecure_private_key localhost -p 2222

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Note that I'm using the default forwarded ssh port number 2222, if you are not using this port, pass the port number you are actually using.