Questions tagged [ssh-keys]
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How do I change the allowed host key algorithms for SSH?
I am writing an application which uses the libssh library. I am trying to establish a connection from the client side where the app runs to the server. However, instead of connecting, I get an error ...
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Permission denied (publickey) with error message: receive packet: type 51
I can log into all Ubuntu instances with gcp using the same SSH keys, except for one instance, with the Admin creating a user for me, adding me to the sudo and admin groups, adding my pub key there as ...
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Changed home directory permissions on remote server, can no longer ssh into it
I changed the permissions on my ~ directory, and according to this question about ssh and home directory permissions I can no longer ssh into my remote server because it rejects my public key.
Is ...
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What is this entry in my ssh known_hosts file?
I was taking a look at my ssh known_hosts file, and it only included 2 entries. The first line was the GitHub keys, so nothing weird there. However, the second line had a bunch of Chinese text, which ...
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What should go in an ssh key comment?
I noticed when I list my identities with ssh-id -l that I can't differentiate them because they were all created by me on this PC, so the comments take the form of user@mypc which is not particularly ...
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SSHFS keeps asking for a password despite ssh key present
I have a valid SSH key on my client, and my public key is uploaded on the remote server.
I can login with the SSH key without being prompted for password using SSH, but when I try doing so with SSHFS ...
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FileZilla sftp attempts to authorize via key before set password
I'm using FileZilla to sftp into a remote server. The logon type is "normal" with a username and password set. However, when I try to connect, based on level 3 debugging in FileZilla, it tries all of ...
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Why is the key pair generated on the iOS switch [SSH server], not on the client?
I've been going through book CCNA 200-301 Official Cert Guide, Volume 1, as I'm learning for the CCNA exam:
CCNA_200-301_Official_Cert_Guide/Odom,_Wendell_-_CCNA_200-301_Official_Cert_Guide,_Volume_1....
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Secure Windows SSH Key with Windows Hello / TPM
I want to secure my Windows SSH Key with Windows Hello (my fingerprint / TPM) instead of a simple passphrase.
I found that OpenSSH can do this since v8.9 ( https://man.openbsd.org/ssh-keygen#...
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PEM formatted SSH cert with RFC 4716 format keys
I am trying to get a ssh cert for sftp setup with 3rd party vendor in pem format and should be SSH2, using RSA algo with the Key lengths of 2048.
Do the below steps make some sense (Please correct me ...
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use rsync with autossh
I'm trying to use rsync with autossh on my laptop, so it can also work when internet connection is less reliable, but it doesn't really do as I'd like it to do.
The starting point is that I have an ...
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Why am I getting a bad signature for RSA key error with Rysnc crontab between Linux and macOS?
I'm trying to Rsync backups into another machine on a LAN. I've copied my key over and even using SSH manually, I get the following error, which keeps my crontabs from connecting:
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Permission denied (publickey). On Windows Subsystem for Linux
I am new to SSH and have been looking for a solution for this for long now.
I am trying to connect to my uni's server that runs on Ubuntu from my WSL (I am using wsl2) via ssh. My Subsystem also runs ...
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ssh-keygen creates private key with incorrect permissions
When using ssh-keygen without any arguments to generate my ssh keys, it generates both the public and private keys with 644 permissions, making the private key too open to be used. I am running Ubuntu ...
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sshd: Connection reset by IP [preauth]
Initial Post here (closed as not relevant to ServerFault)
I have a raspberry pi with only Key based authentication enabled. When I try to ssh to it using the local IP, it works. But when I try to ...
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Ssh- Connection(ssh) to user through one machine only prompts for ssh-password, but through all other machine, it asks for user password
Edit 01/31/2020:
I tried to run ``` sshd -t ```` in two different machines from my side, and I got this:
mavridks@rh04359:~$ sshd -t
/etc/ssh/sshd_config line 16: Deprecated option ...
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ssh-copy-id to a tcsh on Solaris?
Im trying to copy a public key to the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file on a Solaris server. It fails with this error message:
$ ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub <USER>@<HOST>
/usr/bin/ssh-copy-...
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Restrict few commands for users in SSH key based authentication?
Currently we are using SSH password authentication, and now we want to move to SSH key based authentication. We have multiple users using the same server. How can we restrict certain users from ...
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Can't login on server using ssh [Too many authentication failures]
I'm not able to login in the server. I keep getting this error:
Received disconnect from 128.238.182.77: 2: Too many authentication failures for bmpasini
It happened to me before and I solved by ...
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ssh-add on compute engine ubuntu vm for out going
I have an id_rsa key that I use to connect via scp to a remote server that I've moved to my Ubuntu GCE. I have dropped the key (id_rsa) into main user .ssh folder, chmod 600 but ssh-add won't pick it ...
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Ubuntu unlock ssh key at every usage
I have an SSH private key and I would like to be asked for the password every time if it is used.
I don't know how to do this...
Thank you!
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SSH keys cached remotely?
I wanted to install a new public key on a remote server. I created a keypair using ssh-keygen -t rsa on my Macbook, then added its public key to authorized_keys on the remote server. It is the only ...
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ssh localhost password-less Login not working
I have been trying to ssh localhost into the same machine. I copied the generated public key into the authorized_keys file. It still doesn't work. I have spent hours on trying to find a solution to ...
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ssh Prompts For Password After Account Unlocked - Despite ssh key?
Here's what happened:
I set up ssh key so that user could ssh from A to B without a password.
I got user's password wrong in some other context too many times, and user's account got locked out. (IT ...
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SSH Key Exchange from Cygwin to Ubuntu Fails
I'm trying to SSH from a Windows/Cygwin to Ubuntu. I am not using PuTTY. Instead, I'm using Cygwin ssh, which should be OpenSSH. I used ssh-user-config on the Windows machine to generate my key ...
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Why does FileZilla start its own ssh-agent process?
Why does FileZilla start its own ssh-agent process? When I open my terminal, an ssh-agent gets created with socket location /var/folders/sm/4bt9kz951dg4s5kq1jwy57tc0000gn/T//ssh-nWola5Puaw6o/agent....
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Is it possible to display "visual client keys" in the sshd log?
I found recently that the ssh VisualHostKey setting is very useful for server "users" to determine that their host is the correct host, but is there a way to log the "visual key" (...
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SSH into windows 10 pc with Termux using keypair
So i want to SSH into my windows 10 pc via termux
On server windoes 10 pc:
1.)installed OpenSSH using optional windows features.
2.)enabled the respective services
On client termux app:
-generated ...
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SFTP connection hangs on "SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent"
I am struggling to connect via SFTP to my AWS test account from my on-prem server.
When I cd into the directory where my private ssh-key and run sftp -v -i <private_key_file> <client>@<...
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OpenSSH sshd.exe does not start with KexAlgorithms parameter
Running OpenSSH Server 8.1p on Windows Server 2016 DC
When I add the parameter "KexAlgorithms" in the sshd_config, the service fails to start. I want to add legacy support for key methods ...
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ssh login failed with public key
I use publickey to do ssh login and failed. Here is my sshd config, sshd logs.
sshd config:
Port 1046
Protocol 2
PermitRootLogin no
ChallengeResponseAuthentication no
PasswordAuthentication no
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How can I connect to my SSH on DigitalOcean droplet? permission denied. (git bash Windows)
How can I connect to my droplet in DigitalOcean using the openssh to be able to install my SSL Certificate, I've already added my SSH key to the droplet and my fingerprint is there, but each time I ...
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using a known host key with a reverse-tunneled ssh gateway
I'm using reverse tunneling to provide access to an SSH server via ProxyJump, but I'm having trouble getting the client to remember the host public key. Despite indicating it "permanently added ...
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SFTP with public and private keys
I want to use private and public keys for access to the SFTP server, instead of a username/password mechanism. SFTP server should be available only for a specific user that can log in from whatever IP ...
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Guacamole ssh login details not correct
So in a previous question I was trying to log into localhost's shell via guacamole. The solution was to enable password authentication for localhost connections in the sshd config.
So I looked at the ...
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Unable to generate Ed25519 Key
FYI..this is the first time I'm generating/upgrading any key. It may happen that my question sounds silly , so sorry for that.
I'm referring https://medium.com/risan/upgrade-your-ssh-key-to-ed25519-...
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Error connecting to agent: no such file or directory - adding key to ssh agent
I am trying to add key that I have generated to the ssh agent. Below are my steps
C:\repo>ssh-keygen
Generating public/private rsa key pair.
Enter file in which to save the key (C:\Users\mante1/....
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Prevent SSH key to be automatically added to agent
Is there a way to prevent a certain SSH key to be automatically added to an SSH agent while all others are automatically added?
For example, assume all my keys are protected by a passphrase. I would ...
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ssh-keygen, is it possible same public key generated? (ssh public key duplicate)
Is it possible same public key generated?
In the following example, the two keys(test1.pub, test2.pub) created are different public key.
$ ssh-keygen -C IsItPossible
Generating public/private rsa key ...
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SSH | Permission denied (publickey)
I have two VMs in Google Cloud:
I need to establish SSH connection between them.
I generate a key in vm by ssh-keygen.
saviord7@vm:~/.ssh$ ls -l
total 12
-rw------- 1 saviord7 saviord7 1766 Aug 19 15:...
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Proftpd: Use public key only to connect
My requirement is such that there must be a custom proftpd docker image which any user can use. The user will run the docker container using the image and on running will mount a mount path to the ...
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ssh-agent not persistent after some amount of time (no reboot)
I am using Suse 12 on VM, it is left running and never off/rebooted.
I use TCSH and would call
> eval 'ssh-agent -c'
> ssh-add
> <put passphrase here>
And then ssh login to servers/...
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Permission settings on SSH authorized_keys for user group
I have several users who would like to access a SSH server viapublic - private key pair. I'd like to have a single private key distributed across all of them, and then have it matched with an ...
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Which key is in use when ssh logging into my EC2 instance?
After a ssh-keyscan I opened my generated known_hosts file, and found that there are 3 instead of 1 key for my EC2 instance.
**.**.**.** ssh-rsa ******
**.**.**.** ecdsa-sha2-nistp256 ***
**.**.**.** ...
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: Permission denied (publickey)
i am trying to do gerrit review using ssh command line argument.i am getting error as : Permission denied (publickey).for .ssh folder.
i tried with below steps also still no luck.
.ssh directory: ...
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ssh stops working on CentOS 8 (GCE VM)
ssh stops working on CentOS 8 (GCE VM)
I had ssh working correctly with a pub/private key pair working just fine for two days on a GCE CentOS 8 VM, and it stopped working.
Now I get:
Permission ...
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When using an SSH jumpbox, is it possible to defer to the jumpbox for authentication?
I am connecting to a private SSH server by way of a jumpbox. Unfortunately, this requires me to put my public key on all of the private servers since the authentication is still resolved from my local ...
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OpenSSH resetting connection when I try to SSH
I'm trying to set up my local Windows 7 machine to receive SSH connections so I tried to follow this guide on how to install OpenSSH into a Windows machine to server as an SSH server.
I was able to ...
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How should I pass secrets in cmd.exe
My quesiton particularly targets passing an SSH key to a docker build command, where I want to clone a private repository from github.
In order to keep the key private, I just want to pass it as a ...
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Automatically load SSH key on Windows startup
The software context here is Windows 10 + Git for Windows, which comes with a lot of extra tools, some of which I mention below.
I have several private repositories on BitBucket. In order to to avoid ...