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I'm having some trouble using Git with cygwin.

"Could not create directory '/home/Craig/.ssh'. The authenticity of host 'github.com (207.97.227.239)' can't be established. RSA key fingerprint is 16:27:ac:a5:76:28:2d:36:63:1b:56:4d:eb:df:a6:48. Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? no Host key verification failed. fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly"

is being displayed whilst trying to connect to github using SSH. I've also tried using https:// as the remote path but to no success.

I'm running windows 7.

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    This might need to be moved to superuser.
    – VoronoiPotato
    Dec 10, 2012 at 13:14
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    " Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? no Host key verification failed" There's a surprise.
    – barlop
    Dec 11, 2012 at 0:26
  • I have typed yes, the no was just to get an example error message. (hint: it's the same one.)
    – Craig Cuthbertson
    Dec 12, 2012 at 12:08

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This worked for me!
http://ekawas.blogspot.co.uk/2007/03/solving-pesky-ssh-issues-in-cygwin.html

First, locate the file called 'passwd' in your C:\path\to\cygwin\etc directory and open it with wordpad.

Second, replace the text
/home/YOUR_NAME
with
/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/YOUR_NAME

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    Yup, this is one possible problem: if you have changed the cygwin home folder to point to the Windows home, it is not enough to just set the HOME env variable. The /etc/passwd file must also be edited, in order to point to your actual home folder. Git seems to rely on that (instead of first checking the $HOME var). Also remember that, starting on Windows 7, your home folder will be on /cygdrive/c/Users/YOUR_NAME instead of /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/YOUR_NAME.
    – rsenna
    Apr 24, 2014 at 14:22
  • I changed how Cygwin mounts the C drive so it's at /c/ instead of /cygdrive/c/ and I got the same issue as this question and this answer fixed it (of course, I changed it to /c/Users/YOUR_NAME because of what I just said and I am on Windows 7 (which has C:\Users instead of C:\Documents and Settings it'd seem.))
    – Captain Man
    Oct 12, 2015 at 19:21
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maybe the permissions to your home directory are interfering with ssh's ability to create the known_hosts file?

go to your home directory and create a folder called .ssh, and a blank file called known_hosts inside of it. then set the permissions on the file to 644.

cd ~
mkdir .ssh
touch ~/.ssh/known_hosts
chmod 644 ~/.ssh/known_hosts

then try ssh again and see if the result is any different. (note: you'll have to say yes when asked if you want to continue connecting the first time. then that server will be added to the known_hosts list and you shouldn't be prompted anymore after that.)

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  • .ssh already exists in my home directory, I have created and chmod'd the known_hosts file, but to no positive effect. My home dir is currently set as /cygdrive/c/Users/Craig, could this be the problem?
    – Craig Cuthbertson
    Dec 12, 2012 at 12:03
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Try typing yes when you are asked if you want to continue

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  • I have done so. The 'no' was to reproduce the error message to post on here.
    – Craig Cuthbertson
    Dec 12, 2012 at 12:08
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In addition to answer by diannal, if you don't have a passwd file under etc folder in Cygwin root folder, then you can first create one by issuing this command: mkpasswd -l -p "$(cygpath -H)" > /etc/passwd

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  • This did indeed create a passwd file, but sadly nowhere was I referencing home
    – Jamie Hutber
    Feb 22, 2016 at 17:27
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Use Sysinternals Process Monitor to log the file system accesses that take place when you are trying to do this.

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In your Documents and Settings folder of your local machine, create the folder home\. For some reason, cwRsync won't create these folders for you. I didn't change my cygpath, so I created mine in C:\Program Files\cwRsync\home\.

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