id_rsa.pub file SSH Error: invalid format

Question

My co worker and I have been trying to get my macbook to ssh into our AWS production server with no luck, this did work several months ago, but when we went to do it yesterday -

Answer 1

In my case, I was attempting to use the -i flag to point to the default key: ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub user@0.0.0.0

Removing the -i key, and simply calling ssh user@0.0.0.0 resolved the error