MySQL Workbench (version 6.0.8) SSH Authentication Issue

Question

I am trying to connection to a MySQL server on Host X through machine Y over SSH.

The same setup (but older version of MySQL workbench) works on my another box (CentOS 6

Answer 1

I spent 3-4 days to figure out and tried many different solution but none of them worked for me except following.

I was on Windows and using XAMPP to run MySQL and localhost. I stopped both services on my machine and then tried to connect SSL connection using Workbench and its connected.

Answer 2

for linux and generally for workbench it must to be in pkcs8 format intead of rfc...

so export in OpenSSH format but in pkcs8