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Why am I prompted for a password when using SSH to connect to another server?
I installed a fresh copy of CentOS 6.4 on two boxes, and Im trying to setup password-less SSH from server1 to server2.
On server 1, I generated a key with ssh-keygen, transferred it to server2, put ...
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Setting up sshd_config in cygwin for AES encrypted file transfer
I'm a bit newer to cygwin and sshd, and I want to configure sshd to allow encrypted SFTP file transferring.
From what I understand, I need to find some sort of sshd_config example (which for some ...
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Can I change the filename of my ssh public/private key pair?
I created a public/private key pair:
ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "me@example.com"
I gave a different key file name than id_rsa since I wanted to create a new separate key from my normal identity.
I gave ...
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How do you configure the Bitvise ssh server to require certificate authentication?
I'm running the latest version of the Bitvise SSH server and would like to require certificate authentication for all connecting clients. I generated certificates on the client-side and have imported ...
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Isn't it dangerous to use SSH keys to login to an unknown/compromised server?
Say I provide someone with my public SSH key, the id_rsa.pub and he/she installs it on a server that is compromised, and I am asked to login.
Does the login process involve sending my private key to ...
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SSH rsa key works with external IP not internal IP
I am using rackspace cloud hosting. I have 2 servers behind a load balancer. Each server has an external IP and an internal IP. I want to setup a sync job that uses SSH to transfer files. I made ...
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Does the right half of the rsa public key matter?
In a public key file "id_rsa.pub" generated by ssh-keygen, does the part after the == matter?
I ask because when I changed "root@somedomain.com" to "root", it seems to still work.
More generally, I ...
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Is it possible/good practice to use same private key for two servers for passwordless login from the same workstation/localserver?
I have two websites one is clone of the other. When I checked the sshd_config file in both the sites they are exactly similar, except one uses authorized_keys as the identification and the other uses ...
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setup ssh private/public keys
I have done the following:
ssh-keygen
Then put the contents of the id_rsa.pub into the remote ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file. I thought that should do it. But it still prompts for a password. Not the ...
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How does SSH encryption work?
I've read about generating 2 keys (private and public) on client host and copying the public key to the server host.
As I understand it, (correct me if i'm wrong): The server encrypts data with the ...
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How to setup ssh, key-based (“password-less”) logins to a Linux/MacOSX sshd server via Windows, Linux, or MacOSX clients?
How does one setup ssh, key-based ("password-less") client logins to a Linux/MacOSX sshd server via Windows, Linux, or MacOSX clients?
[Seeking both basic, conceptual understanding of key-based, ...
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Does Key based authentication replace or rather supplement password authentication?
Is SSH key based authentication something that happens to replace password authentication or does it supplement password authentication?
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When I encrypt a message with my public key, can I read it with the same public key?
On a process that is using asymmetric encryption(such as ssh), when I want to send a message to someone using my public key, can I decrypt and read this message with my public key (the same that I ...
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sftp and public keys
I am trying to sftp into an a server hosted by someone else.
To make sure this worked I did the standard sftp user@sftp.xxxxxx.com i was promted with the password and that worked fine.
I am setting ...
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How, if at all, do SSH keys differ from asymmetric keys used for other purposes?
How, if at all, do SSH keys differ from asymmetric keys used for other purposes, e.g. email signing?
I'm prompted to ask this, in part, because on OS X, there are apps available to manage SSH keys ...
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How to generate a public/private key (UNIX)
Can some one please tell me, for using SSH, why does a host also need to have a public and private key? And how can I generate a public/private key pair for myself?
