[Bug]: ssh_askpass error intermittently popping up

[declanoller]

Describe the bug

I had obsidian-git working on this machine flawlessly for a while, but in the recent past (I believe coinciding with github changing their keys), it has started popping up this error when trying to sync:

ssh_askpass: exec(/usr/bin/ssh-askpass): No such file or directory
Host key verification failed.
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists.

However, git works everywhere else on my machine, and in fact, if I go to my vault directory and manually do git pull, git commit -am "blah blah", git push, it all works fine.

In fact, I think that it was even sometimes working intermittently despite also saying this error!

I uninstalled and reinstalled obsidian-git, and now it appears to reliably sync, but it still also gives the error, which I would like to remove. What can I try?

Relevant errors (if available)

Uncaught (in promise) Error: ssh_askpass: exec(/usr/bin/ssh-askpass): No such file or directory
Host key verification failed.
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.

    at Object.action (plugin:obsidian-git:26501:25)
    at PluginStore.exec (plugin:obsidian-git:26526:25)
    at eval (plugin:obsidian-git:24031:43)
    at new Promise (<anonymous>)
    at GitExecutorChain.handleTaskData (plugin:obsidian-git:24029:16)
    at GitExecutorChain.eval (plugin:obsidian-git:24013:44)
    at Generator.next (<anonymous>)
    at fulfilled (plugin:obsidian-git:22858:24)

Steps to reproduce

I don't know how to do this without having exactly my setup

Expected Behavior

It to sync without the ssh-askpass error

Addition context

Obsidian version 1.1.16 Ubuntu 20.04 git version 2.25.1

I have no idea why it's asking for ssh-askpass. On my other machine, with the same exact versions as this one, it doesn't have ssh-askpass installed either.

Operating system

Linux

Installation Method

AppImage

Plugin version

2.19.1

[Vinzent03]

May you try installing ssh-askpass?

[declanoller]

May you try installing ssh-askpass?

Hi @Vinzent03 , I did at one point, and I don't think it fixed the issue. But regardless, I don't have ssh-askpass installed on my other computer with nearly identical setup (just Ubuntu 22.04 on other vs 20.04 on this machine), and I don't think I should need it.

I think it should be a big clue that obsidian-git is currently working in the sense that it's pulling/committing/pushing successfully, but it's also trying to do something with ssh-askpass.

[melekabbassi]

May you try installing ssh-askpass?

After installing ssh-askpass, everytime I try to push it asks for the password and then does the job.

Thank you :heart:

[Vinzent03]

It probably needed ssh-askpass, because the environment variable SSH_ASKPASS was set to that file. I'm closing this, because this depends on your ssh setup.