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Recover an SSH private key?
I have an RSA key (generated by PuTTYgen) that's set up for logging in to a bunch of machines via SSH. Or rather, i HAD such a key. (The computer it was on crashed, to the point that a reinstall of ...
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SSH login using public key failed
On localhost running sshd service. Created two pairs of rsa keys for root and user1 using ssh-keygen. Copied from root/.ssh/id_rsa.pub to user1/.ssh/id_rsa.pub. Changed permissions to 600. Tried ssh ...
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Cisco ASA user authentication options - OpenID, public RSA sig, others?
My organization has a Cisco ASA 5510 which I have made act as a firewall/gateway for one of our offices. Most resources a remote user would come looking for exist inside. I've implemented the usual ...
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SSH connection with public RSA key
I have next configuration in our corporative network:
Client: (artur@lothlorien.isd)
/etc/ssh/ssh_config:
Host *
SendEnv LANG LC_*
HashKnownHosts yes
GSSAPIAuthentication yes
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What does this ssh error mean?
This is my last resort. I've been trying to figure out the problem here for hours.
Here's the deal: I have copied my private key from machine #1 onto machine #2. Machine #1 is able to connect via ...
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Gerrit installation fails at ssh verification
I used the official guide to install Gerrit on a Debian server. Now I am stuck at the paragraph where I am supposed to verify that the ssh connection works:
ssh bastian@ip.of.the.server -p 29418 ...
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SCP Asking for Password with RSA Key
I've followed a few tutorials on setting up RSA Public Key Authentication, but I cannot seem to get it to work. I can SSH into the remote machine without a password, but when I try and scp files, I ...
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The RSA key container could not be opened. Windows Server 2008 R2
I am setting up a second asp.net site on our Windows 2008 R2 server. We use a RSA Key Container to encrypt our connection strings. I created a new Application Pool with all the same settings as our ...
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ssh hostname returns “Bad owner or permissions on ~/.ssh/config” (chmod 600 not working with MingW)
This question is a near duplicate of Robert's question but after trying chmod 600 ~/.ssh/config I still have the same error.
I've tried using cygwin and MINGW32 to do the chmod 600. ls -la returns ...
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Generate pfx certificate from pem rsa
I have a PEM RSA private key generated with opendkim:
# dkim-genkey -t -s code001 -d domain.com
and for use it with exchange, i need to convert it to pfx with this command:
# openssl pkcs12 ...
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Upgrading to RSA Authentication manager 8.0, server linux or windows?
We're planning on upgrading to RSA authentication manager 8.0, and I'm wondering if there is any benefits installing this on a Linux server instead of a windows 2008 server. We want to run it with ...
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openssl Subject Public Key Info: RSA Public Key: (1024 bit) vs Public Key: (1024 bit)
I have a couple of certificates whose format seem pretty similar except for one thing
I have checked the details of the cert by using the following openssl command
openssl x509 -in certname -text
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Error when install SSL certificate on MediaTemple GS server
Here is what happened:
I generate the CSR via the MediaTemple site (that is the only way to do it. since a GS is a share server). Send it over the namecheap.com (its signed by RapidSSL).
When I got ...
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How to I tell Git for Windows where to find my private RSA key?
My GIT setup runs fine within linux, but when I try to set things up under Windows (using git for windows and tortoisegit) I don't know where to put my private ssh key (or, better still, how to tell ...
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I created an RSA key but SSH keeps asking the password
On my Mac, I created an RSA key with ssh-keygen -t rsa and saved it as .ssh/authorized_keys on the target server (Ubuntu).
I put this in server's /etc/ssh/sshd_config:
PubkeyAuthentication yes
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How To Organize and Use Multiple RSA Keys On Local Machine?
I have Server_A, Server_B, and Server_C.
I want to generate unique authentication keys for each, and organize them on my local machine running Lion like so:
Put server_A keys in ...
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Ubuntu 9.10 RSA authentication: ssh fails, filezilla runs fine
This is quite a mistery for me. I usually use passwordless RSA authentication to login into my remote *nix servers with ssh and sftp. Never had any problem until now.
I cannot connect to an Ubuntu ...
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sshd shuts down with “No supported key exchange algorithms” error
sshd
$ /usr/sbin/sshd -f testconfig -p 22025 -d
debug1: sshd version OpenSSH_5.2p1
debug1: private host key: #0 type 0 RSA1
debug1: read PEM private key done: type RSA
debug1: private host key: #1 ...
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setting minimum size of accepted rsa key
Is there a way to set the minimum size accepted by sshd as an RSA public key?
I want to restrict users to using RSA keys that are generated with ssh-keygen -b 8196 or greater.
I didn't see any ...
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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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passwordless scp without keys
I am looking for some option that will allow me to accept files from any server using SCP command. I am aware of the process of creating password-less logins. But what I am looking for is an option on ...
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SSH failing from script, working on command line (Git)
Have 3 servers: Local, Bare, Development.
The following workflow works perfectly:
1. Make my local changes
2. git push to Bare
3. ssh into Bare
4. $ ssh ip.of.Development.server "cd ...
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404 [Not Found] error in web gui - perms and owner seems right
error in web gui
Not Found
The requested URL /ca/vettor,ca-navbar.html was not found on this server.
$ tail -f admin-error.log
[Wed Jan 9 15:33:25 2013] [error] [client 192.168.25.19] File ...
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Problems with SSH
I'm having issues with one of my computers on my server accepting my key. I've used this key on other computers I've set up before with no problems, I can SSH using it into many different servers.
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How do I validate a RSA ssh public key file (id_rsa.pub)?
Are there any command I can verify the public key (id_rsa.pub), just the format only
Sometimes I have added a new linebreak, sometimes the file missed the ssh-rsa prefix, so are there any command to ...
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Is there a way to see which groups/users have access to an RSA key container?
I used aspnet_regiis to create an RSA key container (machine container).
I want to secure it and I know I can use the -pa and -pr commands to specify access. But is there a way to see which ...
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Can you make default client key length larger for ssh-keygen?
When users employ ssh-keygen to create RSA key pairs, the default key length is 2048 bits.
You can override that on the command line with the -b argument, but few users will bother.
As mentioned in ...
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OpenSSH server Authentication refused
I am running a Linux version 2.6.27-vpac2 on a PXA270 platform (armv5tel)
I have a version of OpenSSH 3.8.1 p1 (Debian-8.sarge.4) trying to get to run on it.
I have run the sshd in -ddd format to ...
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SSH login without password
I know that you can use ssh-keygen to generate a public/private key pair. Then you can install the public key on a remote server. You can then login without supplying a password. I haven't been ...
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How can an RSA key be placed in a “non-folder”?
I lack a lot of knowledge regarding the subject so please excuse me if my question is very ignorant.
I just started out with RSA key authentication to my test-server. It did not work at the beginning ...
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How to manually know the RSA2 key finger print?
When I grep in the etc folder, I get this message:
grep: ssh_host_rsa_key: Permission denied.
Since I am on cygwin, I can't use sudo or something else.
Please let me know how to find it out.
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IPSec: Distinguish between roadwarriors using raw RSA public keys
The strongSwan documentation mentions the possibility of authentication with Raw RSA Public Keys. Is it true that X.509 certificates are not necessary to distinguish between multiple connecting ...
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How to check whether our RSA certificates are 1024 bits and above?
Recently Microsoft pushed that certificate keys should be 1024 bits or above.
Microsoft minimum key length
How can I verify whether a key is 1024 bits or not?
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Postfix “warning: cannot get RSA private key from file”
I just followed this tutorial to set up a postfix mailserver with dovecot and mysql as backend for virtual users.
Now I got the most parts working, I can connect to pop3 pop3s imap and imaps.
Using
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How to check if a RSA public / private key pair matched
I have two files, id_rsa and id_rsa.pub, what command can be used to validate if they are the valid pair.
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login with rsa to my vps
I successfully added a rsa key my root account.
since I don't want everything in my root acc, I created a new user. but for some how, I keep getting "server refuses our keys" message :S
I did ...
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Can I use authorized keys for user not 'root'
I used this tutorial to login into root without using password. Is there any way to make this work for normal user , not root user
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Amazon EC2 - Creating new RSA/DSA Keypair
I'm going to keep this quick. A friend of mine's dev locked him out of his EC2. Now I'm not familiar with Amazon EC2, but I've setup my fair share of keypairs.
Note: I will get the PEM/PPK ...
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Exim DKIM Error: DKIM: signing failed (RC -101) no matter what private key I try
I have this problem with Exim. DKIM fails on signing outgoing mails.
This is the /var/log/exim4/mainlog output (Debian Squeeze):
2012-08-02 17:11:33 1Sx1k5-0004Tk-9D <= me@my_domain.com U=me ...
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Using PGP keys for SSH
I use a 4096 byte RSA PGP key; since SSH also uses the RSA standard, is it at all possible to use the PGP key as an SSH key without installing additional software on the server (and as little as ...
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RSA Server Setup
We are working on an application which uses RSA Key manager server.
we have with us is:-
rkm-2_0_0-win32-pre.pkg
containing rkm-evaluation-readme.pdf, KeyMan.doc, etc.
Tomcat on which sample rsa ...
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How to set up my own full-featured certificate authority?
I'd like to set up a certificate authority, which I can then import to all the company's browsers and systems to get rid of all those nasty client warnings when using HTTPS or SSL.
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Changing RSA passphrase on Windows with TortoiseGit auxiliary programs?
We have designers who are on PCs and are starting to use our git version control repositories. we are using rsa keys to allow them to connect, and TortoiseGit as the interface.
Everything is working ...
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Despite all the information available, I'm stumped on passwordless logins. Help?
So I have my home computer & a server. I want the server to be able to SSH into my home computer w/out a password. I have followed various tutorials and can ssh from home to server with no ...
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RSA keys - virtual hosts
Setting up passwordless ssh for multiple users has proved to be kind of a pain.
Currently I'm the single user of this Ubuntu 10.04 LTS VPS. I was able to establish a single RSA passkey under my ...
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SSH keypair generation: RSA or DSA?
SSH supports two signature algorithms for key pairs: RSA and DSA. Which is preferred, if any? For RSA, what is the minimum acceptable key length?
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change symmetric key in a SSL connection?
I'm analyzing (for didactic reason) the SSL security, and now I'm focusing on the symmetric key used for crypt the data on SSL tunnel. I read that at the first access to the server, both client and ...
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What is the best approach for RSA key management on Ubuntu?
We have 2 dozen servers and we are moving to RSA authentication. Of course, some developers, the IT, some Execs.. etc.. they all send their keys, who knows where they store them, who knows if they set ...
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Can apache use a key agent to store private keys for SSL?
For mod_ssl in apache to work, you need your RSA private key on the server. If the key is passphrase protected, you have to enter the passphrase whenever you restart apache. There is ...
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Creating AWS Linux instance with github-pulled application
Is it possible to create AWS Linux instance on the fly so that it could
pull a source code from a private gihub repository?
My main obstacle is that github requires private keys which I assumably ...

