Question

What i have is:

a.b.c.d:/x/www/app

Now if i issue the command:

git clone a.b.c.d:/x/www/app /home/user

i am prompted for my LDAP Password and then clone the app successfully.

But when i use the same with Jenkins, Jenkins gives error:

Failed to connect to repository : Command “/usr/bin/git ls-remote -h a.b.c.d:/x/www/app HEAD” returned status code 128:
stdout:
stderr: Host key verification failed.
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

I am using Jenkins version 1.500 and Git plugin version 1.1.26

ERROR:

Using strategy: Default
Cloning the remote Git repository
Cloning repository git:///$GIT_USER@a.b.c.d:/var/www/app
git --version
git version 1.7.9.5
ERROR: Error cloning remote repo 'origin' : Could not clone git:///$GIT_USER@a.b.c.d:/var/www/app
hudson.plugins.git.GitException: Could not clone git:///$GIT_USER@a.b.c.d:/var/www/app
    at hudson.plugins.git.GitAPI.clone(GitAPI.java:273)
    at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM$2.invoke(GitSCM.java:1044)
    at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM$2.invoke(GitSCM.java:986)
    at hudson.FilePath$FileCallableWrapper.call(FilePath.java:2348)
    at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:118)
    at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:48)
    at hudson.remoting.Request$2.run(Request.java:326)
    at hudson.remoting.InterceptingExecutorService$1.call(InterceptingExecutorService.java:72)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:334)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:166)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1110)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:603)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:679)
Caused by: hudson.plugins.git.GitException: Command "/usr/bin/git clone --progress -o origin git:///$GIT_USER@a.b.c.d:/var/www/app /home/user/workspace/app" returned status code 128:
stdout: Cloning into '/home/user/workspace/app'...

stderr: fatal: unable to connect to :
: Name or service not known


    at hudson.plugins.git.GitAPI.launchCommandIn(GitAPI.java:897)
    at hudson.plugins.git.GitAPI.access$000(GitAPI.java:42)
    at hudson.plugins.git.GitAPI$1.invoke(GitAPI.java:269)
    at hudson.plugins.git.GitAPI$1.invoke(GitAPI.java:248)
    at hudson.FilePath.act(FilePath.java:865)
    at hudson.FilePath.act(FilePath.java:838)
    at hudson.plugins.git.GitAPI.clone(GitAPI.java:248)
    ... 12 more
Trying next repository
ERROR: Could not clone repository
FATAL: Could not clone
hudson.plugins.git.GitException: Could not clone
    at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM$2.invoke(GitSCM.java:1056)
    at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM$2.invoke(GitSCM.java:986)
    at hudson.FilePath$FileCallableWrapper.call(FilePath.java:2348)
    at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:118)
    at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:48)
    at hudson.remoting.Request$2.run(Request.java:326)
    at hudson.remoting.InterceptingExecutorService$1.call(InterceptingExecutorService.java:72)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:334)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:166)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1110)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:603)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:679)

Answer 1

git:// protocol does not use authentication.

If you want to use the protocol, you need to start git-daemon on your server-side repository.

If ssh with username/key based authentication is what you wanted, use ssh://$USER/path instead.