Questions tagged [ssh-keys]
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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 ...
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No supported authentication methods available [preauth]
I have a problem with logging using public key genereted with puttygen. My /var/log/auth.log says
No supported authentication methods available [preauth]
When attempting to connect using putty I ...
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SSH connection to Gitlab is getting timeout
I've followed the official Gitlab docs (https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ssh/) to make my keys using the comand:
ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "email@example.com"
But I'm getting timeout error as you can see ...
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limit sftp access to specific folders when using a public/private key with openssh
Is it possible to limit what folders a user can sftp to when using public/private keys?
Say I have a server with user1 and their home folder is /home/user1. I already have it configured so user1 can ...
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ssh authentication failure with public/private keys
I'm setting up a Continuous Deployment pipeline on gitlab.
Unfortunately, when trying to ssh from the pipeline to the target server, the authentication fails.
I am asking the question here because I ...
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Unable to load private key file .ppk (file format error)
I generated an Ed25519 key pair with puttygen, and saved the private key on my computer.
When I try to authenticate with it, I get
Unable to load private key file "my_private_key.ppk" (file format ...
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Get SSH authentication data after key authentication
Is it possible, from the server side to retrieve data used in the key authentication after this is completed? For example, from a pam module, to get the public key used, the challenge used (if it was ...
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SSH server checking public keys from another source
In an ssh connection with key authentication the user sends the ID of the public key he wants to use. Then, the server checks the authorized_keys file for the publick key.
I'd like the server to not ...
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I've generated a public key: 2976 bits …?
I have generated a public key via ssh-keygen -f foo. The key inside the file foo.pub is AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAABAQDaJ1UGxfjTCzuVNvgjOyK/NF5KFDO2qUREGd9PBB+zJotS85XO9hQjq5XhdekXHfhCM/h3AeGW/xH+...
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SSH host key changed just after setting root password
This might sound super suspicious, but it just happened to me:
I run a rented Raspberry Pi as my own mail server and today I set a root password to eventually login as root directly. I did not yet ...
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Google Compute Engine SSH - different username after switching to OS Login [duplicate]
I created a Compute Engine VM (Ubuntu 18.04), and when I log into it using the SSH button in the VM instances list I'm logged in as user username.
After a while, I realised I needed to be able to use ...
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Get the fingerprint of an existing SSH public key
This Question asks about getting the fingerprint of a SSH key while generating the new key with ssh-keygen.
But how does one get determine the fingerprint of an existing public key in a .pub file?
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Ubuntu ssh-copy-id using an existing private key?
I know the easiest way is to ssh using an existing account into target and add the public key of another user account into .ssh/authorized_keys. Is it possible to do this using ssh-copy-id? ...
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Azure VM --generate-ssh-keys, no passphrase
I've created an Azure Ubuntu VM, using azure cli with the following command:
az vm create \
--resource-group rgName \
--name vmName-$RANDOM \
--image UbuntuLTS \
--admin-username ...
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Tightly Couple SSH keys with a single Machine
I do have a ssh private key in my dev machine through which I can ssh into my production server. One security problem is that I can copy this ssh private key to any personal machine or say some ...
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SSH agent forwarding mixed with su user -
If I ssh to my server as such:
ssh root@<ip> -A
Then I do this remotely:
ssh git@github.com
# Hi username! You've successfully authenticated
Then this remotely:
su user -
Then this ...
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AWS EC2 instance connection timedout, two instances under same security group, one connect other one dont
Hi could anyone please help, i am running two Ec2 instances under same security group, both were running ok, i just installed jenkins, docker on one instance and ran command ufw allow 8080 in one ...
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SSH connection to port 22 is refused/timed out. Can't install key to server
I have been having issues with connecting to my ssh server. After installing ssh and other server packages I have been trying to connect as a root user. Each time it says the connection timed out. I ...
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SSH Server refused public-key signature despite accepting key
I did the following on a Windows Server 2008 R2:
Installed OpenSSH 0.0.24.0 by executing this command ->
powershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File install-sshd.ps1
and generated the keys with
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Trying to set up SSH keys, but instructions aren't clear
Every SSH tutorial or explanation I find seems to forget right in the middle that there are two computers or servers involved.
I am trying to create a website hosted on a remote server. I generated ...
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How to compute GitLab deploy key fingerprint from ssh key-pair
When viewing Deploy Keys in a GitLab repository's setting, the keys have a "name" and also some kind of fingerprint. The fingerprint looks like this:
2b:be:a7:7f:44:64:89:8d:e3:f7:ea:3c:12:c9:e5:e7
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How to generate SSH keys for gitlab.com hosted project?
I have a project hosted as private repository on gitlab.com. I want to use gitlab ci/cd to automatically deploy my project to remote server QA_SERVER when code is pushed to master branch. Below is the ...
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How to use public private keys in connecting with multiple servers?
Assume I have 4 servers A, B, C and Z and my desktop is MacBox and there is another developer Adam. I have already generated public private key pairs in my MacBox and copied public key to A so that ...
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Running bash script from an user of the same group that connects to a server using SSH-key from another user of the same group
I made a script like this one:
sync.sh
#!/bin/bash
#1st backup the file
scp user-1@ip-1:/directory/file1 /backup/location/
#2nd sync/overwrite my file to that server
scp /local/file2 user-1@ip-1:/...
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How to use ssh on cpanel server? [closed]
I want to entry to my cpanel server, but I can't do it. This is what I did. I am going to the login page of my server on cpanel and I got in. Then:
Security -> SSH Access -> Manage SSH Key -> ...
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SSH key management in big and mixed environments (Linux) [closed]
In every company I worked at it was always pain in the ass to manage ssh keys. We had different ways of managing them. But mostly it were some CM systems like puppet/chef/ansible or just manual copy ...
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SSH between N number of servers
I have n number of servers like c0001.test.cloud.com, c0002.test.cloud.com, c0003.test.cloud.com and I want to do the ssh between these servers like: from Server: c0001 do the ssh to c0002 and then ...
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Using SSH authorized keys to roll out privileged file update across a LAN?
I've got a server that from time to time automatically updates a set of privileged files (eg, certificate keys, configs etc). It needs to save those files on other systems on the LAN. I know roughly ...
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ssh key with password is more secure or without password? [closed]
I have a question about ssh key, I want to know if is better to set password for ssh key or not? which one is more secure?
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SSH Permission denied (publickey) - fail at preauth step
i tired different solution found internet to resolve that issue with no luck:
Correct permissions for keys at /etc/ssh/, 400 for private rsa key and 600 for public rsa key.
700 for /home/usersrv/....
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Error: Disconnected: No supported authentication methods available (server sent: publickey) on mac using filezilla
first I'll point out that I do not have much experience using SFTP to connect to a server and using public and private keys. So please, answer assuming that I know nothing about what you're talking ...
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ssh command from Windows to Mac: permission denied
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I want to access to my local Mac computer (version: High Sierra 10.13.5) from my Windows computer (Windows 10). The purpose is for automation, to remove the password authentication and add ...
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Migrating ssh keys to new user for same host access?
I found quite a few posts about migrating ssh keys to a new host, but couldn't find much about migrating from one user to another on the same host...
We are migrating a NAS share to a new platform, ...
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Deactivating PEM Files
To this time, I could not find this question on somewhere else. If there is one, please let me know.
One of my old employee got used to use a pem file we generated (Idk when) to login in our freebsd ...
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Setup an existing Digital Ocean Droplet to use my ssh key
I have created a public and private key so that I can SSH into my Digital Ocean droplet. However I created the droplet before I created my key so this walk through stops helping me mid way through. ...
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Ssh load key error: invalid format
After one of the recent Windows 10 updates on my laptop I'm getting ssh error in Cmder and Hyper:
Load key "C:\\Users\\user/.ssh/id_rsa": invalid format
It worked OK before that.
To fix it I've ...
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OpenSSH - Any way to keep strict host key checking but check only the key and ignore server's name?
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Is there a way I can keep the strict host key checking behavior on but have it check only the server's key fingerprint (which is effectively already a unique identity for the host), without ...
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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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Stream video on VLC Player over sftp with ssh key authorization
So I know that I can stream media to VLC using sftp, however my server uses ssh-key authorization and not username/password. Is there any way to allow VLC to use my private ssh key to connect to my ...
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SSH key across multiple machines with SSH chaining
I would like to be able to ssh across mutiple machines using the -A flag on ssh like:
ssh -A user@hostB ssh -A user@hostC
This works fine in scenarios where I have SSH keys allowing me to go from my ...
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How to add more exchange algorithms to Putty SSH session?
I have a device that accept the following exchange algorithms for SSH connections:
curve25519-sha256,curve25519-sha256@libssh.org,diffie-hellman-group14-sha256,kexguess2@matt.ucc.asn.au
I ...
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ssh private & publc key questions
Hello I'm working on switching all my keys to ed25519. I've ran this command:
ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "user on server"
now it generates a private key and a public key. I copy the public key into ...
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Can't install puttygen (tool for generating ssh key in .ppk format)
Here is what I have tried, I have installed putty:
root@kali:~# putty
(putty:2859): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_box_gadget_distribute: assertion
'size >= 0' failed in GtkScrollbar
(putty:2859):...
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Windows 10 is saying a valid key “id_rsa” is using invalid format
I brought a pair of keys from a linux debian machine which is working fine. But, when I tried it on a windows 10 machine using ssh service by power shell it is not working, the error message starts ...
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error mounting remote directory on Mac using sshfs and public key file
I'm currently running 10.13.3 (High Sierra).
Ultimately, I'm trying to automount a directory on my web host's server using sshfs using this guide. I have generated a shared key and can ssh to the ...
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How do I get ssh to use only one key from ssh-agent?
I need to use two different ssh keys when connecting to the same host.
The machine I need to use to connect (because of ip address restrictions) is not the machine where the ssh keys are stored, so I ...
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Read Only access to GitHub repo via SSH key
I want to generate an SSH key with only READ permissions to be used with my GitHub account is it possible? or should I create another account with only read permission?
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SSH between multiple Vagrant VMs
I am trying to install a local 3 node cluster of HP Vertica. The Vertica install uses SSH to install the DB Server software onto each node when triggered from any one of the nodes.
I get an error ...
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Mac SSH is looking in wrong location for key
I'm trying to install some private github dependencies, but I'm getting this error:
npm ERR! fatal: cannot run ssh -i /home/user/id_rsa: No such file or directory
npm ERR! fatal: unable to fork
My ...
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raspbian SSH access refused from windows
I have Raspbian installed on Raspberry 3, I am trying to access it with SSH keys.
I have generated Public and Private key, the Public_Key is inside Raspbian's file ~/.ssh/authorize_keys
The file ...
