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Johnson Jo
Johnson Jo

Reputation: 65

Gitolite - remote: FATAL: fingerprinting failed for 'keydir/'

I installed Gitolite in my system to manage the repositories. When i try to add any of the client machine's public key, am getting the error "remote: FATAL: fingerprinting failed for 'keydir/". Would you please help me to resolve this problem.

Upvotes: 7

Views: 3503

Answers (3)

k3a
k3a

Reputation: 1390

This message can also be seen after adding SSH2 (Putty) key to gitolite. In that is the case a simple conversion from SSH2 to OpenSSH key can be done this way:

ssh-keygen -i -f ssh2.pub > openssh.pub

Upvotes: 1

starfry
starfry

Reputation: 9983

I just hit this problem while working on a new install. There was a change to the key fingerprint format in OpenSSH at version 6.8:

Add FingerprintHash option to ssh(1) and sshd(8), and equivalent command-line flags to the other tools to control algorithm used for key fingerprints. The default changes from MD5 to SHA256 and format from hex to base64.

Fingerprints now have the hash algorithm prepended. An example of the new format: SHA256:mVPwvezndPv/ARoIadVY98vAC0g+P/5633yTC4d/wXE Please note that visual host keys will also be different.

The latest git checkout of gitolite is aware, since 18th March '15, of this new format.

Upvotes: 3

VonC
VonC

Reputation: 1327004

As I documented in "Getting fatal: object is corrupted when pushing to a remote repo", this is due to an incorrect ssh key.

I like to generate my private/public keys like so (not password protected):

ssh-keygen -t rsa -f "$HOME/.ssh/git" -C "Gitolite access (not interactive)" -q -P ""

Upvotes: 2

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