On 11/07/17 10:26, Michael Blumenkrantz wrote: > On Tue, 11 Jul 2017 10:12:53 +0930 > Simon Lees <sfl...@suse.de> wrote: > >> On 10/07/17 23:03, Mike Blumenkrantz wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I've been getting this error for some time now on one of my machines when I >>> try to do git/ssh operations: >>> >>> ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host >>> fatal: Could not read from remote repository. >>> >>> Please make sure you have the correct access rights >>> and the repository exists. >>> >>> Others have been experiencing this issue as well, so it seems to be a new >>> issue with server configuration. >> >> I had to generate a stronger ssh key then it started working fine again. >> I followed >> https://help.github.com/articles/generating-a-new-ssh-key-and-adding-it-to-the-ssh-agent/ >> which recommended >> >> ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "your_em...@example.com" >> >> Which seems to be happily accepted by the server. Its likely some older >> keys are no longer supported as they are no longer secure. >> > > I've been using 4096-bit RSA keys successfully for 10 years now and I don't > plan to switch if I don't have to. All 3 of my machines use the same type of > key, and only one of them works with git as of now. This has been an > intermittent issue for years, but it's never lasted for such a long time > before, nor have I heard of it affecting anyone else until now. >
Ok, my keys were weaker which is why I regenerated mine. -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B
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