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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"QAPage","mainEntity":{"@type":"Question","name":"On Windows only, operations fail using ssh with PKI","text":"\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003eI am updating code that was previously Linux-only to support Windows, and my tests are failing on Windows with errors like\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"snippet-clipboard-content notranslate position-relative overflow-auto\" data-snippet-clipboard-copy-content=\"ERROR: Cmd('git') failed due to: exit code(128)\n  cmdline: git clone -v -- ssh://\u0026lt;redacted\u0026gt; C:\\Users\\stevjorg\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\clitest-qevu7qrx\n  stderr: 'Cloning into 'C:\\Users\\stevjorg\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\clitest-qevu7qrx'...\nPermission denied, please try again.\nPermission denied, please try again.\n\u0026lt;redacted\u0026gt;: Permission denied (publickey,gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic,password).\nfatal: Could not read from remote repository.\n\nPlease make sure you have the correct access rights\nand the repository exists.\"\u003e\u003cpre class=\"notranslate\"\u003e\u003ccode class=\"notranslate\"\u003eERROR: Cmd('git') failed due to: exit code(128)\n  cmdline: git clone -v -- ssh://\u0026lt;redacted\u0026gt; C:\\Users\\stevjorg\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\clitest-qevu7qrx\n  stderr: 'Cloning into 'C:\\Users\\stevjorg\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\clitest-qevu7qrx'...\nPermission denied, please try again.\nPermission denied, please try again.\n\u0026lt;redacted\u0026gt;: Permission denied (publickey,gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic,password).\nfatal: Could not read from remote repository.\n\nPlease make sure you have the correct access rights\nand the repository exists.\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003eI can successfully execute the same command that is shown for \"cmdline:\" manually at the Windows command prompt.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003eThe connection uses ssh keys, so no password is used/needed.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003eAny ideas?\u003c/p\u003e","upvoteCount":1,"answerCount":2,"acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003eI finally figured out the problem. I was running this through WinPython, and its batch files that set the environment prior to running python.exe assign a value to HOME (that is not the current user's home directory). Apparently, that confuses ssh because when I tweaked my process for starting python.exe in WinPython to clear the HOME variable, that fixed the problem.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003e…so the problem has nothing to do with GitPython, but others attempting to use GitPython under WinPython will likely encounter the same problem.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003eMy specific fix was to stop using WinPython's scripts/python.bat to run Python and to instead call its scripts/env.bat to set up the environment, then \u003ccode class=\"notranslate\"\u003eSET HOME=\u003c/code\u003e, then execute \u003ccode class=\"notranslate\"\u003eif not \"%WINPYWORKDIR%\"==\"%WINPYWORKDIR1%\" cd %WINPYWORKDIR1%\u003c/code\u003e followed by \u003ccode class=\"notranslate\"\u003e\"%WINPYDIR%\\python.exe\"  %*\u003c/code\u003e as scripts/python.bat would do.\u003c/p\u003e","upvoteCount":1,"url":"https://github.com/gitpython-developers/GitPython/discussions/1966#discussioncomment-10847016"}}}