github: server certificate verification failed

Question

I just created a github account and a repository therein, but when trying to create a local working copy using the recommende url via

git clone https://githu         


        

Answer 1

I also was having this error when trying to clone a repository from Github on a Windows Subsystem from Linux console:

fatal: unable to access 'http://github.com/docker/getting-started.git/': server certificate verification failed. CAfile: /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt CRLfile: none

The solution from @VonC on this thread didn't work for me.

The solution from this Fabian Lee's article solved it for me:

openssl s_client -showcerts -servername github.com -connect github.com:443 /dev/null | sed -n -e '/BEGIN\ CERTIFICATE/,/END\ CERTIFICATE/ p'  > github-com.pem
cat github-com.pem | sudo tee -a /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt