Secure Shell or SSH is a network protocol that allows data to be exchanged using a secure channel between two networked devices. Used primarily on Linux and Unix based systems to access shell accounts, SSH was designed as a replacement for Telnet and other insecure remote shells, which send ...
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Transparently forward SSH connections to NATed Servers
I've been trying this for a long time and I have not yet found a good solution. I have several servers behind a NAT that all run an SSH daemon. One of the machines is my main server which gets the SSH ...
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How to troubleshoot banned connections on OS X / Ubuntu
I have an ubuntu 11.10 VM running on an OSX machine.
Every once in a while some services become inaccessible from specific IPs (e.g. sometimes just ssh is blocked, and sometimes both ssh and https.)
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ssh login to strato vserver fails
I recently got problems login into my strato vserver with ssh. Using the mac terminal my Internet-Connection broke up for 1 second. Login in again the server throws back the following error message:
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Copy file from Linux server to windows server through ssh
I have to copy file from one folder on linux server to windows server(2008) through ssh. The servers do not lie on same network. I have gone through many examples that use scp command, but didn't get ...
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Starting software VIA SSH [closed]
I'm curious as to how you can go about starting software through an SSH tunnel, but keep the software running on the SSH server.
For example, I host a minecraft server for my brother and his friends. ...
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Root only has read permission for /etc/ssh/sshd_config?
I'm trying to edit my /etc/ssh/sshd_config file as per these instructions to properly set up git on my Synology NAS:
http://www.wonko.de/2010/04/set-up-git-on-synology-nas.html (step 6)
However, when ...
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Downloaded file with putty on CentOS. Trying to locate file with cPanel [closed]
I've downloaded a file with putty over ssh til my server. This was downloaded to a users root folder.
This is a zip-file with a site that I want to unzip in cPanel. How can I locate the tar.gz in ...
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sshd block access from some host names
I want to block access from some external host to my ssh deamon. Is there something in the sshd_config file I can set?
Just if this matters: I'm on a Synology 1010+ with openssh installed from ipgk, ...
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No ssh connection parallels plesk with root, could not get shadow information for NOUSER
I want to login to my vServer with ssh and putty. When I connect to the server with putty,
I am able to enter username and password. When the password is wrong, I get "Access denied." But when it's ...
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Where do I find the sshd log in Ubuntu 12.04
I have a fresh install of Ubuntu 12.04. I'm trying to setup ssh public key authentication. Unfortunately, it refuses to work. Running the ssh client in verbose mode I can see that the public keys are ...
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Recurring “agent admitted failure to sign using the key” error with passwordless SSH
One of the machines on my network (Mint 12 workstation, up to date) periodically gets into a bad state wherein all outgoing SSH connections fall back to password authentication with the error "agent ...
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How do I set up SSH to allow 5 people log in to 100 Linux boxes with the same credentials?
Suppose I have 5 users and 100 Linux machines with remote shell enabled. How do I set the environments up to allow these few users to log in to any of the machines with the same credentials?
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sftp concurrent connection
I have to setup my server to receive 20-30 concurrent sftp connections from different clients using same username. I've tried to test this simulation user connections with scp.
The problem is that ...
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ssh connection refused with out iptables rulles
I changed the ssh port from 22 to 2021 and it worked correctly till 3hours ago,after that when I can't connect to ssh.
ssh: connect to host 130.185.72.125 port 2021: Connection refused
so I checked ...
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ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host What's wrong?
root@Rx:~# ssh -v root@[ip]
OpenSSH_5.5p1 Debian-6+squeeze1, OpenSSL 0.9.8o 01 Jun 2010
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: Applying options for *
debug1: Connecting to [ip] ...
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Should I harden my SSH if I only allow my IP in iptables?
I have several Linux servers without hardening the SSH:
Allow root logins
Use same password for all the servers
Use default ssh port 22
But I have setup iptables to allow only my own IP to SSH to ...
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Monitor file copies with SCP done via SSH
Is there a way to keep a log of the files copied using SCP? I am administering a server which contains some files that should be monitored (in a specific folder and its subfolders), so when someone ...
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Accidentally moved apache2
I was using filezilla to go through files on server, and apparently my mouse decides to drag a folder (at the time i didn't even know) and now I'm unable to find the folder..
My ftp was unresponsive ...
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Restricting SSH login by IP address on Debian
I want to allow SSH logins only from 3 IP addresses: 111.111.111.111 and 222.222.222.222 and 333.333.333.333. I know, I have to edit /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny files.
My question is about ...
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ssh with xinetd
I want to configure xinetd for ssh connections (port 55555).
Here is my config files:
/etc/xinetd.d/sshd
service ssh
{
disable = no
socket_type = stream
wait ...
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Securely mounting a Samba share from a VPS on a local machine
In my own little slice of the internet, I have a share that I want to serve up so I can mount it on my system at home and work with files as if they were local. I have this setup as a Samba share at ...
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Node.js installation on Debian 6
I used to use this method for node.js installation on Debian, since it was easy and everything worked fine. Even with multiple users.
Since version 0.6.18~dfsg1-1 of the sid package, installation ...
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Creating a safe environment on (backup) server
I want to use my server as backup server and let other users let their data backup to it aswell. I was thinking of using rsync instead of FTP (due to the obvious reasons), however how would I prevent ...
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how to use cipher key ssh login between xshell and securecrt interchangably
I'm using xshell(windows) and SecureCRT(mac) as my working environment.
I want to use cipher key(RAS) ssh login to server between these two environment.
I can login to server that generate the cipher ...
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mosh tunnel via proxy
I'm a growing fan of mosh and am increasingly using it when I have unreliable wifi links. What I am trying to figure out is how to build a tunnel through a server which is in a DMZ (connected to ...
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.bashrc and .ssh/ disappearing seemingly at random
I have a server that has been running Fedora 16 ( 3.1.0-7.fc16.x86_64 ) for about a month now. I only log in every few days or weeks, but when I do, sometimes files are missing from my home directory. ...
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Fast Internet Backup
We wish to install some servers in a remote datacentre to act as a backup storage location for our primary datacentre.
Assuming that both sites will have GigE connectivity, what is the best method to ...
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Configure PAM, Radius for ssh
I want to do following scenario:
I configured PAM and freeradius, so when a user wants to ssh to server, server asks PAM if the password is correct and it is working well.
Now, I want to let users ...
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OpenSSL headers do not match the library
I am attempting to update my openSSH version so that I can take advantage of certain features, however the release I need is not in the repo accessible by yum.
I am on CentOS5.5 and as I attempt to ...
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Tunneling ftp connection [migrated]
here is my situation.
I need to access an FTP server at work. The server will only accept local IP's, so I cannot access it from my home machine. I have been able to ssh into my unix work machine ...
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upgrading ssh. what should i backup?
Title says it all.
I'm going to upgrade ssh on a unfamiliar server.
What would it be a good idea to backup before doing so?
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verify sshd configuration
how I can verify the sshd configuration ?
example:
AllowUsers user1 user2
PasswordAuthentication no
PermitRootLogin no
the only way is reading the file sshd_configuration ?
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How to disable ssh keys and log-in using password
I'm having a tricky situation. First I set-up a ssh access through keys and I forgot password for "keys", and then I couldn't connect. I tried to login using another computer, and I thought I would ...
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Be able to pull from git without password on login or just run keychain which does it for me
I need to pull from Github all the time and I have a passphrase, but it's a pain, so I typically run...
ssh-agent bash
ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa
<prompt and give passphrase>
git pull
...
And ...
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Internal Server Error after changes in files
I am using ssh to connect my host on server (connect via myaccount@ip). However, whenever I make changes in files on server, I see Internal Server Error everywhere. In fact, this happens whenever I ...
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How can I tell what is causing a delay in ssh connection startup? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
ssh delay when connecting
This is a toss up between superuser and serverfault but I figure it's more a serverfaulty question.
I do development on a solaris box...
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Is there a way to fix Cluster-SSH windows positions automatically?
Have you used Cluster-SSH? It's a GUI (frontend) to secure shell (ssh) which function it's to let you write the very same commands to a lot of hosts. If you open a lot of hosts at the same time, ...
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ssh suddenly stopped working on Mac
Everyday I wake up and check the my servers are running smooth, I use my mac to connect to some ubuntu and some freebsd machines.
But today when I tried something strange happened:
$ ssh -v -p ...
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Interactive shell based on SSH and UDP
I've heard from a friend about a client-server application which initializes on top of SSH connection but implements interactive shell over UDP protocol. It is specifically designed for bad quality ...
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Download big files from ESXi?
I want to move one of my vm guest between two ESXi servers. I can't do this with converter or Veaam FastSCP because I'm in another network and using this tools is extremly slow. So I'm trying to copy ...
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How to measure how much bandwidth a ssh connection is using per day?
I have an ssh connection that I run to access a remote machine.
At present I use autossh to keep the pipe open 24/7.
I am curious as to how much the pipe alone uses bandwidth wise.
How can I measure ...
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CentOS 6 + OpenSSH 5.3 + umask are not working for me
I've been trying to set umask 002 to my sftp users, I already tried setting the umask in the following files:
/etc/ssh/sshd_config:
Subsystem sftp /usr/libexec/openssh/sftp-server ...
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rsync Module error
I have a rsync server and i can not list modules or transfer to modules.
Following work correctly:
rsync -v test.txt user@host.com:test
It will be create a new file "test" in the home directory of ...
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debian squeeze kerberos heimdal ssh authentication failed: No valid Key exchange context
there!
I have installed a kerberos server (heimdal-servers) on host kerberos, and clients (heimdal-clients) on host ssh-server and user. I am trying to perform SSH authentication through kerberos.
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SSH - set env vairables by every connection - godaddy shared host
My problem is, that I have to set env variables (like GIT_EXEC_PATH) on a server. I need that variables by every connection (so by bash and by remote commands either). I managed to set those variables ...
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Get size of CentOS folder for a user via SSH
I've been working on a back up script for a client, however if I get the size via FTP account, it takes a long time to load the page, was wondering if running a SSH command via PHP would be much ...
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SSH compression
I want max compression on my ssh tunnel cos I'm on a dialup line ;)
At the man page can one can read:
CompressionLevel
.....The meaning of the values is the same as in gzip(1). ...
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Socks or VPN or what when over a slow network that have a packet lost rate of 5-25%
I want use some kind if encryption to tunnel all my connection outside my laptop through an Internet server I have. My objective are two:
1- That all my Internet access appear to come from my server ...
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scp to AWS EC2 - error - “Please login as the user ”ubuntu“ rather than the user ”root“.”
I'm trying to scp a file to /var/www because I'm playing with apache. To move the file I do scp -i <ec2-shh-key> localfile root@<ec2-instance-ip>:/var/www/fileremote.
But this gives me an ...
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Should I be setting up my Django app on my server via SSH or locally? [closed]
Ok noob question: I have a little micro AWS EC2 instance running, and I'm going through this Django tutorial. SSH'ing into my EC2 means that all the work I'm doing, like editing the config files, ...
