[[!comment format=mdwn username="anton" subject="me too" date="2015-05-07T09:50:09Z" content=""" I get similar results on Windows, but I only use the command line. For some reason git-annex ignores the ssh-agent settings (SSH_AUTH_SOCK=...) and uses the wrong path for the ssh config dir -- /home/username/.ssh (that probably doesn't exist) -- instead of c:/Users/username/.ssh (or whatever it really is). Your issue is probably that ssh wrongly looks for known_hosts in /home/username/.ssh and asks whether you wan't to accept the unknown host key. SSH works when ran by git itself (like git clone/push/fetch), also for rsync, but seemingly not git-annex. """]]