Error: unable to verify the first certificate after setting up an id_rsa

Question

I suddenly faced an error when starting a nextJS app after running the following commands:

ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "myemail@example.com"

After setting up the passphrase I cannot run npm run dev and get the following issue:

{
  code: 'UNABLE_TO_VERIFY_LEAF_SIGNATURE'
}

I also tried disabled the ssl on npm but it is still not working

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 11 '21 at 07:05

UNABLE_TO_VERIFY_LEAF_SIGNATURE should be an error seen with certificate issue for HTTPS URLs (like here), not SSH.

In other works, your SSH key should not be involved at all.

If you have git+https:// URLs in your dependencies:

either you can fix your certificates (example on Windows)
or you can use, for some URLs, an SSH one instead of HTTPS (which would then rely on your SSH key)

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