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ssh use public-key authentication
I use public-key authentication with secureCRT to login linux server and turn off password authentication at these server:
1.Create the keypair(openssh key format) with SecureCRT.
2.Cat the public ...
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debian Linux (squeeze) ssh stalled
I'm facing a strange ssh problem when ssh-ing to an other linux box (authentication with public key).
What I am doing: in a loop I do every second a ssh $remote $somecommand
normally the answer ...
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ssh login using public/private key exchange authorized_keys not working?
I am trying to login from one ubuntu box to another using public/private keys with ssh, but it is not working..
OMD[live]:~/.ssh$ ssh -l myuser -v -i /test/sites/live/.ssh/id.rsa.myuser ...
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SSH to bitbucket returing Permission Denied (publickey)
So I am trying to clone a repo to a directory on my Ubuntu server but I keep getting a Permission Denied (publickey) error.
This is very weird because my output for ssh -T git@bitbucket.org shows ...
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Call Pam module before public key authentication on SSH
I am currently writing a pam module which does some checks if the key stored in authorized_keys is still valid. However I cant find a possiblity to run the module before the public key authentication ...
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Best current authentication cipher for SSH2? Are certain ones only allowed/not allowed? How to tell what cipher an existing key is?
I am a linux newbie. I plan on generally using OpenSSH
I have spent a number of hours & I can't seem too quickly find the answer
I have briefly read some on IETF, however I will be honest its WAY ...
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SSH login without recheck all public key
I have several servers and different users. Also i have two different authorize method: via keys and password.
When i try login ssh recheck all public keys. Is there method to bind public key and ...
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How to check if a password for an ssh key has been set with only the public key?
We have some SFTP-Chroot Environments where we only allow 4096bit RSA Keys for authentication and we only have the public key part from our users. But we have a policy that the user has to set a ...
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ubuntu - public-key for authentication
I have a master and slave cluster. I am setting up cloudera manager.
On the master I created a passwordless key using the following.
ssh-keygen -f id_rsa -t rsa -N ''
eval `ssh-agent`
ssh-add ...
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Connection closed [preauth]
On a Ubuntu 12.04 server, I am getting the following pair of messages in auth.log several times a minute:
Jan 17 22:04:25 binx sshd[14659]: Connection closed by 192.168.0.1 [preauth]
Jan 17 22:04:25 ...
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Authenticating to MySQL with asymmetric key-pair
Is there anyway I can give MySQL a public key to authenticate vs (or in addition to) username/password authentication?
It seems that you can switch out the backend of where MySQL stores/checks ...
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ssh publickey doesn't work
UPDATE: I've solved this strange problem by simply restart sshd. However, I'm still wondering why, because I didn't change any configs since the server started.
I have 2 servers, one installed CentOS ...
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When user in server is not logged in ssh gives: Permission denied (public key)
I'm setting up a ssh server using public key authentication. For that I used this tutorial: http://www.g-loaded.eu/2005/11/10/ssh-with-keys/
I was able to login via ssh. But this works only if I keep ...
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sshd ignores authorized_keys and keeps trying authorized_keys2
I just uploaded my public key to a server, ensured permissions are right, and when i try to log it simply refuses it.
after enabling loglevel DEBUG in sshd_config i get:
Nov 22 06:53:36 host-1 ...
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Add comment to existing SSH public key
I have an existing SSH key (public and private), that was created with ssh-keygen. How can I add a comment to this existing key?
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Connecting to a remote server using SSH from a Mac
I have generated a public key file (id_rsa.pub) and a private key file (id_rsa) and placed them in my ~/.ssh folder
According to the server admin, he has already added "my key" to the server for ...
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SSH “Key Passing” or Why can't I SSH to a server from a box I'm ssh'd in too
Situation:
I have a Desktop (Debain Sid) that I prefer to develop on.
I have a macbook pro, since we're developing for Mac, that I compile on (Uses Apple SDK's all driven by a scons build so xcode is ...
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Using public/private keys with dreamweaver [closed]
I have managed to set-up SSH keys to login in to my server with, after doing so I have been able to smoothly use putty and filezilla.
However dreamweaver seems to be giving me problems, I can not ...
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Disallow password auth in SSH via ~/.ssh/config?
I know I'm fighting a losing battle here, but with the right bit of elbow-grease I've got my shared hosting with GoDaddy to let me SSH in via pubkey auth (added in the ~/.ssh directory and an ...
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rsync to EC2 using ssh -i
I'm able to ssh -i mykey.pem to EC2. I'm able to scp -i mykey.pem to EC2. But when I try to rsync -avz -e "ssh -i mykey.pem" I get this error:
Warning: Identity file mykey.pem not accessible: No such ...
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Overriding RPM public key database
Can rpm be persuaded to import and fetch public keys from an arbitrary pubkey database?
On the same build machine I've got two automated users who each need to verify package signatures from ...
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Non-interactive SSH connection fails - error: can't open /dev/tty: No such device or address; Host key verification failed
Below you can see the log.
The connection is from a Cygwin SSH client to a Cygwin SSHD server.
The connection works ok when launched from the command line but fails when launched from Jenkins (Java ...
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SSH Public Key Authentication not working with PuTTY
I have created a virtual machine and installed Redhat 6. I am having issues connecting using public key authentication.
I can use PuTTY on my Windows host to connect to the redhat guest, where I am ...
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Why does Amazon release private keys instead of public keys?
My brain is wrapped around the axle on public and private keys. When you create a cloud server (instance) on Amazon's EC2 service and then want to connect to it via SSH, Amazon requires you to ...
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Google 2 factor authentication on Ec2?
I have set up google two factor authentication on my local machine. So when I do :
ssh localhost
I need to verify the code along with password. But when I try to connect to my Ec2 instance like so ...
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certutil: function failed: security library: bad database.
when I'm using certutil it returns this error: certutil: function failed: security library: bad database.
e.g. I can't list certs or keys
How Can I fix this?
Thanks
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how to change password of AWS EC2 instance
I am logging in my AWS EC2 instance using winscp/putty as root using a .ppk file which has imported-openssh-key.
Earlier it was shared with many ppl, who are all gone, so now I have to change it in ...
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SSH: Two Factor Authentication
I currently have a Ubuntu Server 12.04 running OpenSSH along with Samba and a few other services. At the current time I have public key authentication set up, and I'm wondering if it's possible to set ...
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Encrypt temporary password using public ssh key
I manage a virtual office and our staff uses both SSH keys and passwords for authentication. If one of our staff forgets his password, is there a way to encrypt a temporary password using his public ...
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Key-Based SSH Permission denied (publickey) Ubuntu 12-04
I have configured sshd to accept key-based ssh logins with LogLevel on DEBUG, and uploaded my public key to ~/.ssh.authorized_keys, where permissions are set as:
700 ~/.ssh
600 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
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Why is SSH insisting on letting me log in?
I'm trying to disable logging in by password on a remote Ubuntu server, so that it's only accessible by using the encrypted key file thingy (I'm not totally clear on the terminology).
I followed ...
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SSH and public/private key [closed]
I'm opening my SSH to the world on my home based server. I changed the default port. I made the passwords for root and the only manually added user (done at install time) to totally random 64 ...
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How to log all fingerprints in sshd, even if the connection was unsuccessful?
I understand that by adjusting the LogLevel in /etc/ssh/sshd_config I can log the fingerprints when authentication is successful, but what I would like to do is to see a fingerprint of a key that was ...
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Problems accessing EC2 instance with SSH key pair
Just set up a new EC2 instance, downloaded the pem file and currently cannot get into the box. I'm using the command...
$ ssh -i .ssh/key.pem ubuntu@ec2-176-34-183-***.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com
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Unable to submit certificate request to 2k8R2 CA
I have created a two-tier CA using Windows Server 2008 R2. The .inf files used to create this standalone root and an enterprise subCA are at the end of this post.
The root is installed OK and issued ...
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New server won't accept SSH public key
I have a private network that had 3 servers before. Now that I added a fourth, I tried to set up public key authentication from the main entry point to this new server. However, the usual procedure ...
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SSH Public Key Format
I have a public key in the format:
---- BEGIN SSH2 PUBLIC KEY ----
Comment: "somename-20060227"
AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABJQAAAIBmhLUTJiP[and so on]==
---- END SSH2 PUBLIC KEY ----
usually i see keys in ...
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SSH host key changed - except it actually hasn't
I've just tried to SSH in to a server that I've been doing so without problems for a while, and received a warning that the server's host key has changed.
But it hasn't!
On the server, I've checked ...
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How to make ssh connection between servers using public-key authentication
I am setting up a continuos integration(CI) server and a test web server. I would like that CI server would access web server with public key authentication. In the web server I have created an user ...
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SSH Key not found logging into CentOS 5.5 from Windows (Cygwin)
I am having difficulties logging in to a VPS running CentOS 5.5 using Public key authentication. I can log in to both a standard user account and the root account using password authentication. I am ...
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What is the meaning of an equal sign = or == at the end of a SSH public key?
I just noticed that most of the ssh pubkeys in my authorized_keys end on == or =
E.g.
ssh-rsa ...
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SSH Public Key Authentication Fails Mac OSX
I am trying to get a coworkers MacBook Air running on Public Key Authentication and even after generating a new SSH key I haven't been able to get it to run like I have mine. Double checked file ...
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'POSSIBLE BREAK IN ATTEMPT' in /var/log/auth.log when you use private key in putty?
When when I ssh into my server from windows using putty without using public key authentication I get no indication of a "BREAK IN ATTEMPT" in /var/log/auth.log
However when I use DSA keys and set ...
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Public key authentication - SSH asks for passphrase after rebooting local machine?
I created a public/private key pair on a local machine using ssh-keygen. I entered a passphrase. I then used ssh-id-copy to put the public key on the remote machine.
When I ssh into the remote ...
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Webmin + SSH Public Key
Is it possible to upload a UNIX user's public key to Webmin? I would think this would be on this screen, but I'm not finding it....
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Permission denied when creating/copying ssh key pair [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
SSH configuration, publickeys, Permission denied (publickey,password). error
I am trying to set up a sshkey pair using with the aid of the tutorial here however when I ...
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Debian. How can I securely get debian-archive-keyring, so that I can do an apt-get update? NO_PUBKEY
I have a catch 22 trying to:
# apt-get update
[... good lines omitted]
W: GPG error: http://backports.debian.org lenny-backports Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified ...
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Cannot import EC2 keypair (Length exceeds maximum) via AWS console from existing keypair
I want to use the same keypair from one availability zone in another but I cannot import it. If I generate a new key I get the same error.
See AWS console > Newtwork and Security > Key pairs > Import ...
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What do the different parts of “known_hosts” entries mean?
Below is an known_hosts entry. The part that starts with ssh-rsa and goes to the end is a public key. What are the other parts (the characters before ssh-rsa)?
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Is it possible to circumvent public key authentication restrictions using SSH daemon?
My web hosting plan does not support public key authentication, however advice given in Public key authentication unsupported by web host. Method to avoid entering password? question suggests it may ...
