Sublime Git pushing host key verification failed

Question

So basically I pushed my project to gitlab by sublimegit.

Now I made a format to my windows7 and installed windows10, I placed the project folder in the same path as I used to have on old OS.

I have the privatekey from which I can generate id_rsa - I checked it and it also generates the same public key to gitlab.

I placed id_rsa to Users/Me/.ssh folder and to Program files/Git/etc/ssh and also created a folder in Git called .ssh and place it in there also.

Pushing to git@gitlab.placeholder.ee:HTML/stuff.git
Host key verification failed.

fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Can anyone see what kinda mistake I'm doing?

VonC · Answer 1 · 2023-03-24T09:55:05.463

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You should have id_rsa (private key) and id_rsa.pub (public key) both in C:/Users/Me/.ssh

Check that then environment variable HOME is defined (to %USERPROFILE%), which should be the case if you are calling git-cmd.bat or git-bash.bat, packaged in the latest git for Windows.

As mentioned by the OP, and seen in this question, you also need to add the server key in the C:/Users/Me/.ssh/known_host file.

ssh-keyscan -t rsa github.com > ~/.ssh/known_hosts

(this is what the step 5 of `GitHub SSH / Generating SSH keys` does: that applies also for a gitlab server)

Warning March 2023:

"GitHub has updated its RSA SSH host key"

edited Mar 24 '23 at 09:55

answered Oct 22 '15 at 07:25

VonC

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added id_rsa.pub to C:/Users/Me/.ssh Pushing now gives a modified error : key_load_public: invalid format Host key verification failed. fatal: Could not read from remote repository – MasterNone Oct 22 '15 at 07:28
@Helpme What git version do you have? – VonC Oct 22 '15 at 07:29
git version 2.6.2.windows.1 – MasterNone Oct 22 '15 at 07:31
@Helpme Make sure you have generated your keys with the right format: http://stackoverflow.com/a/10897752/6309 `ssh-keygen -t rsa` – VonC Oct 22 '15 at 07:31
I used puttygen to convert it to OpenSSH - SSH-2 RSA – MasterNone Oct 22 '15 at 07:35
@Helpme Try with a new set of keys generated directly with `ssh-keygen -t rsa`, if your conversion didn't work. – VonC Oct 22 '15 at 07:44

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 22 '15 at 08:36

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Basically I just needed known_hosts

ssh-keyscan -t rsa github.com >> ~/.ssh/known_hosts

answered Oct 22 '15 at 08:36

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Right. I have included that step in my answer. – VonC Oct 22 '15 at 10:33

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 22 '17 at 09:13

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You might install two (github.exe/ git.exe) clients,just try to move out the new one from PATH

answered Mar 22 '17 at 09:13

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Sublime Git pushing host key verification failed

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(this is what the step 5 of GitHub SSH / Generating SSH keys does: that applies also for a gitlab server)

"GitHub has updated its RSA SSH host key"

(this is what the step 5 of `GitHub SSH / Generating SSH keys` does: that applies also for a gitlab server)