# Is it possible to pass custom environment variables to the docker container?

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Yuhoo, I was able to make it work. The issue was that I was using a RSA Private key as an environment variable. This is what needs to be done to make that work.

wrap your key in single quotes `''` and add an extra `\` with all the `\n` appearing in the key. i.e. `\n` would be come `\\n`.

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