Actions in the SAS^® Studio interface regarding a connection to Git with Secure Shell (SSH) return the following pop-up error:

The corresponding Git function also returns a message similar to the following in the log:

Here are other possible errors:

This problem occurs because GitHub dropped support for SHA-1 keys on March 15, 2022. Any SSH key that was generated after November 2, 2021 does not work with SAS Studio. 

You encounter the following error if you attempt to clone a repository with the ed25519 algorithm:

See SAS Note 69932 for information about support of the ed25519 keygen algorithm. 

For more information, see the following GitHub blog: Improving Git protocol security on GitHub.

Click the Hot Fix tab in this note to access the hot fix for this issue.

Customers who run SAS^® Studio 5.2 must install the hot fix to address this issue.

After you apply the hot fix in this note, updated libraries are available for use. After these libraries are installed, you can use the following ssh-keygen command to generate SSH keys. In this command, replace your_email@example.com with your email address: 

Note: This issue is fixed in SAS^® Studio 2021.2.6 (Stable) and SAS^® Studio Long-Term Support 2022.09.

Operating System and Release Information

Viya on Windows: An update for this issue is available for SAS Viya 3.5. For instructions on how to access and apply software updates, see the Updating Your SAS Viya software section in the SAS Viya 3.5 for Windows Deployment Guide at

Viya on Linux: An update for this issue is available for SAS Viya 3.5. For instructions on how to access and apply software updates, see the Updating Your SAS Viya software section in the SAS Viya 3.5 for Linux Deployment Guide at

A fix for this issue for SAS Studio 3.81 is available at:

A fix for this issue for SAS Studio 3.8 is available at: