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Hi

I when I trying to SFTP a file to a server I am getting this below error:

Connecting to 3.12.911.100...
ssh_askpass: exec(/usr/lib/ssh/ssh-askpass): No such file or directory
Host key verification failed.
Connection closed


Can you please help me in debugging this error.


Regards,
Krishna.

You get that error when you run ssh/sftp/scp without a terminal but it still needs to ask you for a password -- it tries to spawn a graphical application for that instead, fails, and gives you that weird error.

Can you help me how I can get rid of this error.....

It's not an error, it's an operation that it can't complete. It needs to ask you something, and has no interactive terminal to do so with.

If it's trying to ask you for a password, your noninteractive authentication (if any) isn't working correctly.

Or it may just be asking if you want to add the host to ~/.ssh/known_hosts. This can be fixed by ssh/scp/sftp-ing into the host by hand as the same user, and answering 'y' to the question so it doesn't need to ask it again.

If you can't login even by hand, there's some other problem.