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How to diagnose proxy over ssh?

Recently I've tried to set up proxy using ssh -D 2454 username@servername (to browse the Internet through ssh tunnel), but failed to do this correctly. I would be happy for any suggestions and/or ...
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strange permission error involving ssh, Cygwin, Windows 7, and .sh files

I am new to Cygwin, ssh, and messing with file permissions and have a problem. On computer WORKER1, I am attempting to ssh into computer WORKER2 and then running a .sh file on WORKER1 from there. From ...
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Execute command/script after file transfer

I've configured a server (Ubuntu) with OpenSSH for file transfer via sFTP. The requirement is that after a file transfer, a mail is sent confirming the file was received by the system. How would I do ...
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Using OpenSSH on Windows for enterprise use

Is OpenSSH for Windows (using Cygwin) is considered to be robust & stable for enterprise use?
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SSH remote login without password is very slow

SSH Client - Mac OS X Lion SSH Server - Debian /etc/hosts on Mac -> [IP of Debian] mydebian Public key of Mac has already been put to authorized_key in root@mydebian:/root/.ssh 'UseDNS no' has been ...
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ssh connecting timeouts from a to b, but works from a to c, and c to b

I am scratching my head here. I now get timeouts between hosts A and B, both running Ubuntu, with some firewall NATing on either side and a good dozen hops in between. (To clarify based on the first ...
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OpenSSH and remote invocation (using Powershell?)

Before I ask the questions, I have to provide some context information... I have a SSIS server which invokes a SSIS package. The SSIS package copies a file to a file server. After the copy action, ...
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OS X, SSH: use different private key files for different servers

I want to use different private key files to connect to different SSH servers (ssh://git-server:port/repository). How to manage that? SSH seems to assume the private key file in ~/.ssh/id_rsa.
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ssh to Windows server sitting behind Linux firewall

I have been looking everywhere and still can't get an answer. I am sorry if this is a re-post somehow. I Have a home network setup as follows: OUTSIDE -> Linux Firewall/Gateway -> Windows Server I ...
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ssh_exchange_identification: unprotected port

I wanna login a guest minix system resides inside VirtualBox through ssh and receive the error ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host. After turn on the verbose flag, the ...
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SSH client not showing prompt after successful login

I'm having problems with my SSH client on Ubuntu 10.10. When I switch on my computer and open a Terminal and execute the command ssh user@host, it gives me a password prompt after which I enter the ...
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SSH connection closes after successful authentication

I'm trying to run a CopSSH server on a Windows 7 x64 machine. The server starts fine and all is well and good, but when I try to connect to the server with PuTTY (with password auth), I get an error ...
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Automatically reconnect interactive SSH session

What's the best way to automatically reconnect an interactive SSH session to re-establish the shells on terminals? I looked at autossh but that seems to be dedicated to port forwards (which I do not ...
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SSH Port Forward 22

I'm trying to set up the following: At work I want to create a local port that will forward to port 22 on my home server. ssh -L 56879:home:22 username@home -p 443 right now I'm testing this on my ...
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telnet after ssh

I have openssh for windows setup successfully on a remote machine. From this remote machine I am able to telnet into the rest of my network devices (routers) using command prompt However, when I ssh ...
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Can't setup SSH server on Cygwin

I had set this up a while ago on a different computer, but I can't get it running now. I've followed the directions at http://pigtail.net/LRP/printsrv/cygwin-sshd.html and I'm getting the following ...
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SSH ForcedCommand causes connection to close

I'm SSHing a server (I'm on cygwin using openSSH), and I went into authorized_keys and modified the file as follows: ssh-rsa [key] to command="echo Working" ssh-rsa [key] Now when I connect to the ...
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How can I setup the openSSH SFTP server on Linux?

I want to configure sftp-server to share a directory but I don't know how to modify /etc/ssh/sshd_config. My requirements are: 1) Login shall not use certificates, only password (i.e. authorization ...
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Exclude specific group/users from ForceCommand in OpenSSH ssd_config

I want to make ForceCommand internal-sftp and ChrootDirectory /jail the default for all users accessing a server via SSH. Only users in a certain group are allowed to escape this. How can I exclude a ...
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Managing a server over SSH

I am running a Minecraft server on Fedora 15. I have openssh-server installed on the server and I can connect to it just fine. Right now, the Minecraft server software opens into a terminal when the ...
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Public key in hex format, conversion to base64

Hi I'm new to cryptogragraphy and have no idea how to do this. So i get a public key from a Putty session and it looks like this: ...
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How to SSH to localhost without password?

EDIT: Putting exactly what was done. I need to SSH to localhost without a password, the usual way of doing it (with public keys) do not work. user@PC:~$ rm -rf .ssh/* user@PC:~$ ssh-keygen -t rsa ...
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why doesnt key authentication work for openssh?

I am working on setting up a hadoop cluster, as per the following tutorial: http://www.michael-noll.com/tutorials/running-hadoop-on-ubuntu-linux-single-node-cluster/#sun-java-6 My problem comes in ...
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Ubuntu 11.04 desktop: cannot connect to openssh-server from the outside

I use Ubuntu 11.04 as desktop OS. I have openssh-server installed and can connect to it from the same computer. I want to use it to create a connection from another computer (on the same local ...
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Is there a way to map SSH user names on the server-side?

Is there any way to configure an SSH server to understand that "bgolemon" should be read as "buck" for incoming SSH connections? I've had several usernames over the years, so my various machines have ...
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SSH weird behaviour if user not logged on physical server

I have a strange issue with my ssh server. If I start my home server, then login through ubuntu with my account (I only have one account) everything works fine, I have no problem to access the ssh ...
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OpenSSH server refuses to accept key authentication

I tried to use public key authentication on my new server, and I came across this problem. $ ssh -v -i .ssh/server 192.168.1.100 OpenSSH_5.6p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8r 8 Feb 2011 debug1: Reading configuration ...
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Make msysgit work with cygwin ssh?

git-upload-pack errors occur when sshing into cygwin. sshd in cygwin does not take paths from .bash_profile as expected in a *nix environment. What is the way to remedy this and make msysgit work ...
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How do I achieve passwordless CVS updates?

I'm working on some code from my computer at home and would like to do CVS updates to a remote server. When I'm at work I don't need to type in a password, but at home each time I need to type in my ...
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SSH Connection Error : No route to host

There are three machines in this scenario: Desktop A : user@1.23.x.x Laptop A : user@1.23.y.y Machine B : user@192.168.z.z All the machines have Ubuntu 11.04 (Desktop A is a 64bit one) and have ...
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How to use ssh-agent.exe without cygwin for pass-phrase protected private key?

I would like to access a SSH service with pass-phrase protected private key in Windows using ssh-agent.exe. So far I able to utilize ssh-agent.exe by changing environment setting in my home account ...
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change default username when ssh to another pc

When I ssh between different pcs I can omit my username (tom) and just type ssh pc_name instead of ssh tom@pc_name I like this feature, and have got into the habit of using it. Unfortunately, ...
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How to determine the port allocated on the server for a dynamically bound openssh reverse tunnel?

When creating reverse tunnels on recent versions of OpenSSH a remote port of 0 can be given to bind any available port: -R [bind_address:]port:host:hostport ... If the port argument is ...
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Connecting to different ports via scp and ssh - why a different flag?

I routinely run sshd on a non-standard port (ie, not 22). When ssh-ing to my machine I use the -p flag. However, when using scp, the flag is -P (lowercase vs uppercase). Since they come out of the ...
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Debian Squeeze 6.0.1 - configuration files missing after ssh installation

I had installed ssh but something went wrong and I uninstalled it. I removed the SSH configuration files by hand (I deleted all /etc/ssh folder). After ssh installation (I mean apt-get install ssh) I ...
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Openssh auto login is not working

I am using Debian 6.0 and I am trying to auto login into Debian 4.0. I generated rsa keys with ssh-keygen on Debian 6.0 and I copied id_rsa on Debian 4.0 in /root/.ssh/authorized_keys. When I tried to ...
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Connecting FileZilla to SFTP, OpenSSH

I've a Ubuntu machine where is installed OpenSSH. I want upload/download files there thru SFTP with FileZilla. SSH works good with putty etc, but when I try to connect with FileZilla, I get Status: ...
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ssh: known_hosts forwarding

In running ssh with agent forwarding. This allows me to do hg/git pulls from my server from systems that I have been authorized to based on my local i.e ssh -A myserver hg clone ...
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FileZilla Client & OpenSSH server - SFTP preserve date time except second - chmtime

It is hard to google chmtime keyword to get what I want. I want to preserve date modified of uploaded files so I can do incremental upload or syncing. I know command for changing the date modified is ...
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Dynamic Proxy with OpenSSH and windows

Ok, so the goal is to be able to utilize the dynamic proxy method that OpenSSH provides with the -D option on the Linux client, such that any connection requests made against a local port are ...
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Configure OSX Firewall to Allow SSH Server?

If I turn on my OSX firewall, ssh is disallowed. If I turn it off, ssh can connect just fine. These are the settings from the ssh host: while I don't know what I'm doing, I figured that giving ...
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How to reduce latency with openssh?

I'm ssh-ing to a server several thousands kilometers away, and every keystroke takes 500-800ms, so it is getting annoying. Is it possible to have my ssh client cache each line I type locally and ...
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How can I change the directory in which I land when accessing a computer via SSH?

I always enter the computer in this directory: /cygdrive/c/Program Files/ICW/var How can I change that?
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Is there a way for one SSH config file to include another one?

In case it matters: OS: Ubuntu 10.04 SSH: OpenSSH_5.3p1 Debian-3ubuntu5 I'd like one SSH config file to include another one. The use case would be to define whatever I want in my default ...
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How to add pointers to filesystems outside the chrooted environment - using chrooted SFTP via OpenSSH

So, I'm pretty sure this is true, but I haven't found a specifically detailed independent reference that directly answers my question. Question being: How can I add access to a resource that is ...
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Problem deleting a key from authentication agent

I added a private key to my authentication, but instead of showing the file location when I do: ssh-add -l It just prints: 1024 [hex numbers] username@hostname (DSA) When I do: ...
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Remove all the keys (credentials) from a PC

I gonna have to change my Windows PC with a colleague at office. I've added a few rsa ssh keys while playing around with git, github, heroku and a few others. What'd be the best way to remove all my ...
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Change OpenSSH account password in Linux

I suppose that my main Linux user account password serves as my SSH password as well. Is there a way I can modify this? As it turns out, I'd like to have a REALLY secure SSH password for obvious ...
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known_hosts file doesn't get populated anymore

I had a populated known_hosts file. I was editing it and for a split second I saw a permission error when I saved it. I went to check what the error was and the known_hosts file was blank. Now if I ...
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Console based speech program that can be run via SSH on Windows 7

I have just installed Cygwin with OpenSSH on my computer, and would like to have a speech program that I can run from a SSH session in a console, similar to the say command in Mac OS X. I have tried ...

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