I'm trying to run git clone
without ssh checking the repository host's key. I can do it from ssh like that:
ssh -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no user@host
Is there any way to pass the same ssh options to the git clone command?
Edit: There is a restriction that I can't modify ~/.ssh/config
or any other files on that machine.
Add them to your ~/.ssh/config
:
Host host
HostName host
User user
SshOption1 Value1
SshOption2 Value2
The Host
entry is what you’ll specify on the command line, and the HostName
is the true hostname. They can be the same, or the Host
entry can be an alias. The User
entry is used if you do not specify user@
on the command line.
If you must configure this on the command line, set the GIT_SSH
environment variable to point to a script with your options in it.
The recently released git 2.3 supports a new variable "GIT_SSH_COMMAND" which can be used to define a command WITH parameters.
GIT_SSH_COMMAND="ssh -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no" git clone user@host
$GIT_SSH_COMMAND
takes precedence over $GIT_SSH
, and is
interpreted by the shell, which allows additional arguments to be
included.
Here is tricky example how to pass the ssh arguments by using GIT_SSH variable:
$ echo 'ssh -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no $*' > ssh
$ chmod +x ssh
$ GIT_TRACE=1 GIT_SSH="$PWD/ssh" git clone user@host
Note: Above lines are terminal command-lines which you should paste into your terminal. It'll create a file ssh, make it executable and executes it.
If you'd like to pass the private key option, please check How to tell git which private key to use?.
Another option made to specify different keys is git config core.sshCommand
with git 2.10 + (Q3 2016).
This is an alternative to the environment variable described in Boris's answer)
See commit 3c8ede3 (26 Jun 2016) by Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy (pclouds
).
(Merged by Junio C Hamano -- gitster
-- in commit dc21164, 19 Jul 2016)
A new configuration variable core.sshCommand
has been added to
specify what value for GIT_SSH_COMMAND to use per repository.
Similar to $GIT_ASKPASS
or $GIT_PROXY_COMMAND
, we also read from
config file first then fall back to $GIT_SSH_COMMAND
.
This is useful for selecting different private keys targetting the
same host (e.g. github)
core.sshCommand:
If this variable is set, git fetch
and git push
will use the specified command instead of ssh
when they need to connect to a remote system.
The command is in the same form as the GIT_SSH_COMMAND
environment variable and is overridden when the environment variable is set.
It means the git clone
can be:
cd /path/to/my/repo
git config core.sshCommand 'ssh -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no'
# later on
git clone host:repo.git
If you want to apply that for all repos, as user1300959 adds in the comments, you would use a global configuration.
git config --global core.sshCommand 'ssh -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no'
I think that update git to an version >= 2.3 and use GIT_SSH_COMMAND="ssh -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no" git clone user@host
is the bet option, but if it not possible, @josh-lee gave a good option, but please, update your answer indenting the ssh config file.
Host host
HostName host
StrictHostKeyChecking no
UserKnownHostsFile /dev/null
This issue has been fixed by doing follow step's in Window machine:-
Create config file under C:\Users\username.ssh folder.
add the following line to a config file.
host <HOST>
hostname <HOSTNAME>
user <USER_NAME>
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa
IdentitiesOnly yes
port <PORT_NUMBER>
KexAlgorithms +diffie-hellman-group1-sha1
then try again.