Git error: “Host Key Verification Failed” when connecting to remote repository

Question

I am trying to connect to a remote Git repository that resides on my web server and clone it to my machine.

I am using the following format for my command:

Answer 1

I got the same problem on a newly installed system, but this was a udev problem. There was no /dev/tty node, so I had to do:

mknod -m 666 /dev/tty c 5 0