.ssh/config: line 1: Bad configuration option: \342\200\234host

Question

I am trying to deploy code from GitLab to the EC2 instance. However, I am getting the following errors when I run the pipeline

/home/gitlab-runner/.ssh/config: line 1: Bad configuration option: \342\200\234host
/home/gitlab-runner/.ssh/config: terminating, 1 bad configuration options

Here is my .gitlab-ci.yml file that I am using.

stages:
   - QAenv
   - Prod
Deploy to Staging:
  stage: QAenv
  tags:
    - QA
  before_script:
    # Generates to connect to the AWS unit the SSH key.
    - mkdir -p ~/.ssh
    - echo -e “$SSH_PRIVATE_KEY” > ~/.ssh/id_rsa
    # Sets the permission to 600 to prevent a problem with AWS
    # that it’s too unprotected.
    - chmod 600 ~/.ssh/id_rsa
    - 'echo -e “Host *\n\tStrictHostKeyChecking no\n\n” > ~/.ssh/config'
  script:     
    - bash ./gitlab-deploy/.gitlab-deploy.staging.sh   
  environment:     
    name: QAenv     
    # Exposes a button that when clicked take you to the defined URL:
    url: https://your.url.com

Below is my .gitlab-deploy.staging.sh file that I have set up to deploy to my server.

# !/bin/bash
# Get servers list:
set — f
# Variables from GitLab server:
# Note: They can’t have spaces!!
string=$DEPLOY_SERVER
array=(${string//,/ })
for i in "${!array[@]}"; do
  echo "Deploy project on server ${array[i]}"
  ssh ubuntu@${array[i]} "cd /opt/bau && git pull origin master"
done

I checked my .ssh/config file contents and below is what I can see.

ubuntu@:/home/gitlab-runner/.ssh$ cat config 
“Host *ntStrictHostKeyChecking nonn”

Any ideas about what I am doing wrong and what changes I should make?

342 (octal) is a signature start of a UTF-8 byte sequence. 342 200 234 (octal) [is the UTF-8 sequence for LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK (U+201C)](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19198332/compilation-error-stray-302-in-program-etc#comment117544674_19198332). It can be searched for in a modern text editor with `\x{201C}` in regular expression mode. — Peter Mortensen, Feb 21 '23 at 08:04
Using [Geany](https://pmortensen.eu/world2/2020/03/29/using-geany/#comment-68), there were two hits in the .yml part of this question. RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK (U+201D) would have to be fixed as well. — Peter Mortensen, Feb 21 '23 at 08:08

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 19 '21 at 18:55

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The problem is with.

ubuntu@ip-172-31-42-114:/home/gitlab-runner/.ssh$ cat config 
“Host *ntStrictHostKeyChecking nonn”

Because there are some Unicode characters here, which usually comes when we copy paste code from a document or a webpage.

In your case this “ char specifically you can see in the output as well.

replace that with " and check for others in your config and update should work.

There are more details in this question getting errors stray ‘\342’ and ‘\200’ and ‘\214’

answered Jan 19 '21 at 18:55

samtoddler

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The canonical is *[Compilation error: stray ‘\302’ in program, etc.](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19198332)* (though it is in dire need of one or more *really* comprehensive answer) – Peter Mortensen May 08 '22 at 13:27

.ssh/config: line 1: Bad configuration option: \342\200\234host

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