SCM GIT export in Rundeck with remote SSH repository fails with SSH's "The authenticity of host can't be established. Are you sure you want to continue connecting?"

[Slava]

Hi all,

I am surprised I am unable to find anywhere answer to this, it looks very basic and something that everyone who uses SCM GIT export would face.

I try set up SCM GIT export in Rundeck, it fails on the stage of initial setup with the following error message:

Failed cloning the repository from ssh://user@gitserver/~/rundeckJobs.git: ssh://user@gitserver:22: org.eclipse.jgit.transport.CredentialItem$YesNoType:The authenticity of host 'user@gitserver' can't be established. RSA key fingerprint is *******. Are you sure you want to continue connecting?

I understand that this is the message of SSH that is thrown upon first connect. I have tried switching to rundeck user and connecting to that server manually, in interactive mode, I have answered "yes" to this question, but the problem still stays.

Does Rundeck have it's own known_hosts file or something? How do I overcome this?

[zbignie...@farmaprom.pl]

I had the same problem recently and yes rundeck has it's own known_hosts in /var/lib/rundeck/.ssh/. You can generate new record like this "ssh-keyscan host.example.com >> /var/lib/rundeck/.ssh/known_hosts". After this rundeck should connect without problems.