Jenkins not working anymore: SSH executable not found

Question

I don\'t know since when, but one day my Jenkins is not building fine my projects anymore.

• Jenkins 2.19.4
• Windows 10
• Git client plugin 1.19.0

Answer 1

I fixed the solution to this problem by following this method.

Manage Jenkins => Global Tool Configuration => Git -> Git installations.

Name: Default

Path to Git executable: C:\Program Files\Git\bin\git.exe

The problem was solved when I tried again by saying Save

Answer 2

Make sure your system path includes:

 <path/to/git>\usr\bin

You will find all the Linux executable (including ssh.exe) there.

You can install a portable version of Git anywhere you want on your system.

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Update April 2017: I had the same issue with Jenkins 1.614 and Git client 1.19

The only way I get past that error was by copying ssh.exe from C:\myGit\usr\bin (with C:\MyGit\usr\bin in %PATH%) to

c:\Program Files\Git\bin

Even though:

• There is not Git at all in C:\Program Files (I installed/unzipped it in C:\myGit), meaning after the copy, C:\Program Files\Bin only include bin\ssh.exe: that's it.
• C:\Program Files\Bin is not in the PATH.

But the Git Client (at least in that old version) is hard-wired to search in that path.

Once I will switch to Jenkins 2.54+, I will test a more recent Git Client plugin.