Questions tagged [private-key]
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Windows SSH: Permissions for 'private-key' are too open
I've OpenSSH 7.6 installed in Windows 7 for testing purposes. SSH client & server work just fine till I tried to access one of my AWS EC2 box from this windows.
It seems like I need to change the ...
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Are GPG and SSH keys interchangable?
I want to generate an RSA key in GPG and use it in SSH login. Is this even possible? If so, how?
edit: see @wwerner's answer, I didn't try it but it seems to be the current solution (as of 2018)
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How to tell git which private key to use?
ssh has the -i option to tell which private key file to use when authenticating:
-i identity_fileSelects a file from which
the identity (private key) for RSA or DSA authentication is read.
The ...
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How do I configure SSH so it doesn't try all the identity files automatically?
I have been putting my ssh identity files inside my ~/.ssh/ folder. I have probably about 30 files in there.
When I connect to servers, I will specify the identity file to use with something like
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Howto force ssh to use a specific private key?
With ssh -i <private key filename> you can instruct ssh to use an extra private key to try authentication.
The documentation is not clear on how to explicitly use only that key.
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No supported authentication methods available in FileZilla
I'm using FileZilla to connect to my SFTP server. But when I'm trying to connect, it gives me this error
Error: Disconnected: No supported authentication methods available (server sent: ...
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PuTTY Key Generator says "Couldn't load private key (not a private key)" when loading a PEM file
I have a certificate ("gridcert.p12") in PKCS12 format that I'm trying to convert to a keypair that I can use in PuTTY.
I'm using OpenSSL to convert the PKCS12 file to a pair of PEM files, one for a ...
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Windows certificate manager restore private key somehow
This is may sounds very strange but let me explain a situation:
I was using my PKI Private Key installed at Windows Certificate Storage I get token, so I decided to load them to token and delete them ...