How to store SSH host key in IntelliJ IDEA

Question

When using SSH as the connection for IDEA\'s git integration, IDEA keeps asking to store the host\'s rsa signature in the host key database. Pressing Yes works, but does not

Answer 1

I just had the same problem with IDEA 13 on Win7, and it was solved by switching to "Native" SSH executable in the Git Settings page. I did that while running Intellij as administrator as suggested by the accepted answer, but the accepted answer didn't fix the problem until I changed the SSH executable.