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SSH Key configuration

OK, so, this is what I'm trying to do: I have my own personal SSH key (with a password) that I use to ssh into any box that I'm authorized to, for shell access (or whatever else)... I have other ...
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Cygwin OpenSSH closes immediately after a connection

Trying to connect to cygwin-sshd using putty or cygwin ssh on localhost, here is all I get. I have it working fine on a different Win7x64 machine but this one is proving hellish. Config files for ...
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CentOS 6 sshd: Logging in works, but still claims “access denied”

I have just installed a plain CentOS 6.3 system. I enabled sshd, and try to connect with Putty. This works, but here is what I get: login as: user Access denied user@192.168.1.7's password: Last ...
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Cygwin sshd did not start due to a logon failure

After a cygwin sshd install, sshd service fails with: Error 1069: The service did not start due to a logon failure I try to give cyg_server standard user and admin access. The error is the same ...
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Generating SSH Keys on the Server

I have set up sshd on a Linux server and managed to log in via keys generated using ssh-keygen. However, I have made the following observation: When I generate the key pair on the client and copy the ...
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sshd_config AllowUsers Should Root Be Allowed?

I am asking here as i do not want to get locked out of my server. I do not want to allow root login to ssh, however if a user enters a "su" command i want them to be able to become root. So do i ...
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sshd refuse connection?

For some reason I cannot access from my vitrual machine my remote virtual server at a server farm and instead it gives me this error message: OpenSSH_5.9p1, OpenSSL 1.0.0g 18 Jan 2012 debug1: ...
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SSH hangs on exit with background jobs - inconsistently

On different Linux boxes, I see different behavior with respect to SSH sessions hanging on exit when there are background jobs running. If I do exactly the same thing $ for f in 1 2 3 4 5; do echo ...
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Can only ssh into Ubuntu 12.04 alpha machine when logged into console

I recently installed the latest Ubuntu 12.04 64bit alpha (2?) onto a VMware virtual machine in order to check things out. One strange thing I've encountered is that I can only successfully ssh into ...
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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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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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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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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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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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SSH Authorized_Key Login Works in One Direction Only

There are three files in my setup: id_rsa id_rsa.pub authorized_keys authorized_keys has a copy of id_rsa.pub contents to allow no-password logins. These files have been copied between two ...
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Unable to connect to CopSSH when running Windows service, works when running sshd directly

I've been using CopSSH (that uses OpenSSH and Cygwin, so I don't know which of the three is the problem) as my SSH server application at home on Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit. I have used it for about a ...
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How to uninstall/reinstall cygwin to use the sshd?

I installed cygwin/sshd without good results. I removed the c:\cygwin directory to reinstall. I removed the sshd Administrator user by hand. I reinstalled the cygwin again, then run the ...