git - Server host key not cached

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I try to push changes from my local repo to a remote repo  When I type   git push origin   I get the following error   The server s host key is not cached in the registry  You have no guarantee that the server is the computer you think it is  The server s rsa2 key fingerprint is  ssh-rsa 2048 xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx Connection abandoned  fatal  The remote end hung up unexpectedly   How can I solve this  I m using git from the command line in Windows 7   Edit  When I try to do a simple ssh  ssh user hostname   I get the following error   Could not create directory   c   HOMEDRIVE  HOMEPATH   ssh   percent expand  unknown key  H   Somehow it will not create the directory  because the path is invalid  How to fix this    eckes  Edit2  My Home is set to  HOMEDRIVE  HOMEPATH  is this correct

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Adding the host directly with Bash didn t solve the issue  the error still occurred when using  Fetch all  in Git Extensions  By using  Pull  on one branch  the required host was added automatically by Git Extensions with a Bash pop-up screen  After doing this I was able to use  Fetch All  again  Not sure what is done by Git Extensions differently

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In Windows 7 or 10  the trick that worked for me is deleting the GIT SSH system variable  It was set before to use Plink  and now was replaced by Putty  This was causing Plink exe error  There was also an old installation of Git  32-bit version  and updating to Git e g  Git-2 20 1-64-bit exe  since the PC was 64-bit OS   Anyway the Putty Plink was not even used by Git since in the Git installation it was default to use Open SSH

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Working environment     Windows 10 git putty   First  Delete putty known hosts in registy according to the Regedit  Then  Executing the command  GIT SSH  user hostname in Window s cmd solves the problem   Hope it helps you all

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I have tried all the methods above but none of them could fix the same issue on my laptop  Finally instead of pushing the branch to origin in git bash  I trun to use TortoiseGit s push option to do the pushing  then a window pops-up to ask me to add the new host key to cache   after clicking the yes button  everything goes fine now   Hope it helps to you all

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Try doing a  set   grep -i ssh  from the Git Bash prompt  If your setup is like mine you probably have these set   GIT SSH  C  Program Files  x86  PuTTY plink exe  PLINK PROTOCOL ssh SVN SSH   C   Program Files  x86   PuTTY  plink exe     I did a   unset GIT SSH unset PLINK PROTOCOL unset GIT SVN   and it worked after that    I guess putty saves its keys somewhere else as  HOME  ssh or something     I ve also had a problem on a box where  HOME was set to  C  Users usrnam  instead of   C Users usrnam     anyway  your mileage may vary  but that fixed it for me   -    probably just doing the unset GIT SSH is enough  but I was on a roll   Note  if unset doesn t work for you  try this   set GIT SSH

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Changing from PuTTY to OpenSSH fixed this issue for me  without needing to unset GIT SSH  etc

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Just ssh ing to the host is not enough  on Windows at least  That adds the host key to ssh known hosts but the error still persists   You need to close the git bash window and open a new one  Then the registry cache is cleared and the push pull then works

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The message means that the host key of origin is not present in your trusted hosts file   To get around this  open a plain SSH connection to origin and SSH will ask you if you want to trust the remote host  from the Git console      ssh 127 0 0 1 The authenticity of host  127 0 0 1  127 0 0 1   can t be established  RSA key fingerprint is  lt FINGERPRINT gt   Are you sure you want to continue connecting  yes no     If you trust the remote host  i e  type yes   SSH will add its key to the list of known hosts   After that  you should be able to do your git push origin   As an alternative  you could also manually add the key of origin to  ssh known hosts but this requires that you adhere to the format of the known hosts file as described in the man page of sshd  Section AUTHORIZED KEYS FILE FORMAT

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I solved similar problem using this workaround   You just have to switch to Embedded Git  push  press Yes button and then switch back to System Git   You can find this option in  Tools - gt  Options - gt  Git

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I suspect that your GIT SSH environment variable is set to  ProgramFiles x86   putty plink exe  For some reason  PLink does not use the  ssh known hosts file in your user directory to store the remote hosts keys   If this is actually your case  and it might be so on purpose if you want to use pageant  you need to use PLink to connect to the host first     GIT SSH  user hostname   You should get a similar message  The server s host key is not cached in the registry  You have no guarantee that the server is the computer you think it is  The server s rsa2 key fingerprint is  ssh-rsa 2048 86 7b 1b 12 85 35 8a b7 98 b6 d2 97 5e 96 58 1d If you trust this host  enter  y  to add the key to PuTTY s cache and carry on connecting  If you want to carry on connecting just once  without adding the key to the cache  enter  n   If you do not trust this host  press Return to abandon the connection  Store key in cache   y n    Once you have answered y to the question and successfully connected to the remote host  you should be all set  Go ahead and try your push again

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For those of you who are setting up MSYS Git on Windows using PuTTY via the standard command prompt  the way to add a host to PuTTY s cache is to run   gt  plink exe  lt host gt    For example    gt  plink exe codebasehq com  The server s host key is not cached in the registry  You have no guarantee that the server is the computer you think it is  The server s rsa2 key fingerprint is  ssh-rsa 2048 2e db b6 22 f7 bd 48 f6 da 72 bf 59 d7 75 d7 4e If you trust this host  enter  y  to add the key to PuTTY s cache and carry on connecting  If you want to carry on connecting just once  without adding the key to the cache  enter  n   If you do not trust this host  press Return to abandon the connection  Store key in cache   y n    Just answer y  and then Ctrl C the rest   Do check the fingerprint though  This warning is there for a good reason  Fingerprints for some git services  please edit to add more     GitHub  16 27 ac a5 76 28 2d 36 63 1b 56 4d eb df a6 48 Bitbucket  97 8c 1b f2 6f 14 6b 5c 3b ec aa 46 46 74 7c 40 Gitorious  7e af 8d ec f0 39 5e ba 52 16 ce 19 fa d4 b8 7d

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As answered by Roman Starkov  plink needs to add the host to it s cache   For people using Git Extensions    Open Git Extensions Go to Tools -  Settings -  SSH Copy the path to  plink exe   if using PuTTY     klink exe   if using KiTTY  In a console  run the following command     replace with the actual paths    lt the path to plink klink exe gt   lt address to the server gt    e g    ProgramData  chocolatey lib kitty tools klink exe codebasehq com   Note  Make sure to use the same plink klink that Git Extensions is using

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If you receive the message about the unrecognized host key while doing git push pull operations using ATLASSIAN SOURCETREE you do not have the ability to answer y n and the push pull operation will be aborted without caching the key  However going to SourceTree Tools- gt Options  General Tab  and changing the SSH Client under  under SSH Client Configuration  from PuTTY to OpenSSH will allow the key to be cached without changing anything else

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Just open Putty and try to establish connection to remote server you want to push your code  when the dialog appears press Yes you trust remote  then everything would be OK

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I changed a hard disk  installed Windows  When tried to upload files received this command window   I pressed  y   then Ctrl   C  Opened putty exe  added an old key ther returned to git and pushed files

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Had the same issue  and forget to connect to SSH on port where is actuall repository  not just general SSH port  then the host key is different

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Just uninstall Git Extensions and Install again by choosing OpenSSH instead of

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I too had the same issue when I was trying to clone a repository on my Windows 7 machine  I tried most of the answers mentioned here  None of them worked for me    What worked for me was  running the Pageant  Putty authentication agent  program  Once the Pageant was running in the background I was able to clone  push  amp  pull from to the repository  This worked for me  may be because I ve setup my public key such that whenever it is used for the first time a password is required  amp  the Pageant starts up

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Solution with Plink  Save this python script to known hosts py       usr bin env python     Id    Convert OpenSSH known hosts and known hosts2 files to  new format  PuTTY   host keys      usage        kh2reg py   --win   known hosts1 2 3 4      gt  hosts reg         Creates a Windows  REG file  double-click to install         kh2reg py --unix    known hosts1 2 3 4      gt  sshhostkeys         Creates data suitable for storing in    putty sshhostkeys  Unix     Line endings are someone else s problem as is traditional    Developed for Python 1 5 2   import fileinput import base64 import struct import string import re import sys import getopt  def winmungestr s        Duplicate of PuTTY s mungestr   in winstore c 1 10 for Registry keys      candot   0     r          for c in s          if c in          or ord c  lt ord      or  c        and not candot               r   r        02X    ord c           else              r   r   c         candot   1     return r  def strtolong s        Convert arbitrary-length big-endian binary data to a Python long      bytes   struct unpack   gt  luB    len s   s      return reduce   lambda a  b   long a   lt  lt  8    long b    bytes   def longtohex n          Convert long int to lower-case hex       Ick  Python  at least in 1 5 2  doesn t appear to have a way to     turn a long int into an unadorned hex string --   gets upset if the     number is too big  and raw hex   uses uppercase  sometimes   and     adds unwanted  0x   L  around it          plain string lower re match r 0x  0-9A-Fa-f   l     hex n   re I  group 1       return  0x    plain  output type    windows   try      optlist  args   getopt getopt sys argv 1           win    unix         if filter lambda x  x 0      --unix   optlist           output type    unix  except getopt error  e      sys stderr write str e      n       sys exit 1   if output type     windows         Output REG file header      sys stdout write    REGEDIT4   HKEY CURRENT USER Software SimonTatham PuTTY SshHostKeys          Now process all known hosts input  for line in fileinput input args        try            Remove leading trailing whitespace  should zap CR and LF          line   string strip  line             Skip blanks and comments         if line       or line 0                      raise  Skipping input line             Split line on spaces          fields   string split  line                  Common fields         hostpat   fields 0          magicnumbers          placeholder         keytype               placeholder            Grotty heuristic to distinguish known hosts from known hosts2            is second field entirely decimal digits          if re match  r  d     fields 1                   Treat as SSH-1-type host key                Format  hostpat bits10 exp10 mod10 comment                   PuTTY doesn t store the number of bits               magicnumbers   map  long  fields 2 4               keytype    rsa           else                 Treat as SSH-2-type host key                Format  hostpat keytype keyblob64 comment                sshkeytype  blob   fields 1   base64 decodestring  fields 2                   blob  consists of a number of                 uint32    N  big-endian                  uint8 N   field data             subfields                  while blob                  sizefmt     gt L                   size     struct unpack  sizefmt  blob 0 4                   size   int size      req d for slicage                  data     struct unpack    gt  lus    size  blob 4 size 4                   subfields append data                  blob   blob  struct calcsize sizefmt    size                    The first field is keytype again  and the rest we can treat as               an opaque list of bignums  same numbers and order as stored               by PuTTY    currently embedded keytype is ignored entirely              magicnumbers   map  strtolong  subfields 1                   Translate key type into something PuTTY can use              if   sshkeytype     ssh-rsa     keytype    rsa2              elif sshkeytype     ssh-dss     keytype    dss              else                  raise  Unknown SSH key type   sshkeytype            Now print out one line per host pattern  discarding wildcards          for host in string split  hostpat                    if re search  r         host                   sys stderr write  Skipping wildcard host pattern   s  n                                     host                  continue             elif re match  r      host                   sys stderr write  Skipping hashed hostname   s  n    host                  continue             else                  m   re match  r               d      host                  if m                       host  port    m group 1 2                      port   int port                  else                      port   22                   Slightly bizarre output key format   type port hostname                    XXX  does PuTTY do anything useful with literal IP v4 s                  key   keytype       d  s     port  host                   value   string join  map  longtohex  magicnumbers                        if output type     unix                         Unix format                      sys stdout write   s  s n     key  value                   else                        Windows format                        XXX  worry about double quotes                      sys stdout write     s      s   n                                          winmungestr key   value        except  Unknown SSH key type   k          sys stderr write  Unknown SSH key type   s   skipping n    k      except  Skipping input line           pass   Tested on Win7x64 and Python 2 7   Then run   ssh-keyscan -t rsa bitbucket org  gt  gt    ssh known hosts python --win known hosts py  gt known hosts reg start known hosts reg   And choose to import into the registry  The keyscan will retrieve the public key for the domain  I had my problems with bitbucket   and then the python script will convert it to Plink format

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Rene  your HOME variable isn t set correctly  Either change it to c  Users  your-username  or just to  USERNAME

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