Cannot clone private repo from Vagrant provision file

Question

I have vagrant provision script containing shell commands. When I try to clone private repo via git and private\public keys within this script I get an error: ``` Cloning into 'brand.api'... Stderr from the command: stdin: is not a tty dpkg-preconfigure: unable to re-open stdin: No such file or directory Host key verification failed. fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly ``` But when I exclude `git clone ...` command from provision script and call it myself within vagrant box everything is ok. Here is the provision file: ``` #setting up Git apt-get install -y git mkdir ~/.ssh mkdir ~/bin cp /vagrant/bin/git-ssh.sh ~/bin cp /vagrant/keys/mygit.key ~/.ssh/mygit.key cp /vagrant/keys/mygit.pub ~/.ssh/mygit.pub chmod 600 ~/.ssh/* echo 'export GIT_SSH=~/bin/git-ssh.sh' >> ~/.bashrc source ~/.bashrc #installing brand-api git clone git@****.ru:brand.api.git ``` What's the problem? UPDATED After adding git repo host to known_hosts I get this: ``` Stderr from the command: stdin: is not a t…

Accepted Answer

The SSH key of the git server is not known/trusted. When you clone the repo manually on the VM, you get a prompt asking to verify the fingerprint, right?

You can either skip the host key verification in `~/.ssh/config` (or globally in `/etc/ssh/config` or alike):

```
Host git.example.com
  StrictHostKeyChecking no
```

Or you can add the key in advance to `~/.ssh/known_hosts` (or `/etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts`). For example:

```
ssh-keyscan -H git.example.com >> ~/.ssh/known_hosts
```

Cannot clone private repo from Vagrant provision file

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