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Problems accessing to a RDS through a Bastion Host from a local K3s

I'm trying to build a local Kubernetes with K3s and I'm having problems to access to my RDD that is situated in the private Area of the VPN. For now, I'm trying to deploy a Passbolt (https://...
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Use bastions config file for server configuration

I'm in the process of setting up a jump server/bastion host for several of our developers and was wondering if it is possible to use the config file on the bastion for final server resolution. E.g. we ...
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How do I ensure that a SOCK5-proxy is not used by malicious applications?

I have created a jumphost/bastion, that will act just as that - a jumphost to certain hosts:ports. I am aware of that I can limit users/groups with the following: Match User Alice PermitOpen some....
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Can I write a one-liner to kubectl exec -it into GKE pod via a bastion host using gcloud compute ssh?

We run our production Rails app on GKE, and we require all production access to go through a Bastion host. To access it, I SSH into the Bastion host: gcloud compute ssh --project=myproject --zone=...
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Can't connect from bastion host to private instance

I have a bastion host that I'm trying to use to SSH to a private instance. The instances are in different AZs (with different subnets). The VPC has a CIDR of 10.0.0.0/16. The bastion host subnet has ...
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Accessing Azure resources from an offsite location

I have an azure application that runs on PaaS architecture. To access azure resources like sql or add, I would like that to go through a secure virtual machine instead of from personal devices which ...
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How to ssh to a server via bastion(proxy) with key from the bastion(proxy) NOT origin

So I'm essentially trying to do this: ssh [email protected] -t ssh bob2@test-vm the above works fine if I just put it into the terminal, however I am having a hard time trying to replicate it via ...
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pssh with ssh ProxyJump with multiplexing session re-use

I have a list of nodes, that are accessible only through a bastion server. On these nodes, I would like to execute commands in parallel. So, I had been trying to use ssh -J flag or, respectively, the ...
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How to connect azure postgres with bastion?

In this page also, it was shown to create a separate vm in the same vnet to connect to postgres setup in a private vnet option selected. Is there anyway to connect using azure bastion.please show the ...
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How do you SSH in to an Azure VM through an Azure Bastion?

My initial understanding was that an Azure Bastion acts like a lightweight SSH (and RDP) gateway to resources -- specifically, VMs -- on the same virtual network, rather than provisioning a full VM as ...
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Can a previously define Host be used as a Hostname in .ssh/config file for a tunnel configuration using LocalForward?

So, I have a bunch of servers that are only accessible thru a bastion host. My bastion host, however has a dynamic IP which change randomly. For ssh'ing into the various server, I simply have a .ssh/...
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X11 forwarding through a jump box

I have a machine that is configured to auto connect to a jump/bastion box when there is an internet connection. I configured its ssh config file as follows: Host tunnel HostName <jump ...
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Cannot connect to bastion host in AWS

I am following the guide in https://aws-quickstart.s3.amazonaws.com/quickstart-bitnami-wordpress/doc/wordpress-high-availability-by-bitnami-on-the-aws-cloud.pdf to create a WordPress High Availability ...
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Can Azure Bastion Host be configured for unattended ssh logins?

Can bastion hosts be setup for unattended ssh logins? I've not been able to find anything in the documentation. All I see is that a user goes to the Azure portal and connects through the portual UI ...
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Tinyproxy error: Unable to connect to the server: Access denied

I installed tinyproxy 1.8.4 on a bastion host with public IP on GCP, to forward traffic to a private GKE cluster. Now I'm using ssh to connect to the bastion host with port forwarding and the ...
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Bastion host user access

I am using my bastion host to connect to internal servers as follows ssh -J user@BastionHost user@InternalServer Is it required to create user on Bastion host to jump to internal servers ? Or can we ...
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Deploying Bastion Host

I am trying to setup a bastion host for my online infrastructure. All my servers will be using public key for authentication. Currently I am able to connect to my bastion host using public key but I ...
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How can a TCP connection be passed through a routing server in AWS to its originator to avoid timeouts?

I'm a front end developer that has found myself needing to solve a backend issue with a site I'm working on. I did not set it up and am trying to understand how its currently structured. Within AWS ...
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Explanation on Bastion Host

I've just setup my first bastion host in AWS and it made me think about the access. For an example: user --> bastion (public) --> database (will only allow access from bastion IP on port 22) It ...
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Run 'kubectl' commands from my localhost to GKE - but via tunnelling through a bastion host

Currently... I have a GKE/kubernetes/k8s cluster in GCP. I have a bastion host (Compute Engine VM Instance) in GCP. I have allowlisted my bastion host's IP in the GKE cluster's Master authorized ...
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Getting Error while connecting public to private server on Oracle cloud

ssh -t -o ProxyCommand='ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa [email protected] -W %h:%p %r' -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa [email protected] ssh -t -o ProxyCommand='ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa opc@<publiIP> -W %h:%p %r' -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa opc@...
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How to check Bastion login logs in Azure to VM

We share a domain admin account credential for one of our Active Directory VM stored in Azure. Users will connect to the VM via Bastion in Azure. Currently someone disabled a user in the AD and we ...
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How to properly make an ssh bastion, with fail2ban, in a Docker container

I've already asked the question on the Docker forums but so far no luck with a reply. I'm hoping I will have better fortune here. I’m in the process of making an ssh bastion (with fail2ban for ...
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AWS Session Manager SSH MFA

I know that it's possible to enable SSH access with AWS Session Manager and use MFA with Bastion. My question is, can I combine the two? I want to ssh into an EC2 instance proxying through Session ...
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Ansible on EC2 with bastionhost and private key authentication and Active Directory validation

In our setup we have to access EC2 instances via a bastionhost. This bastionhost is connected to an Active Directory where it validates the credentials of the user who connects. From the bastion host ...
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SSH CA-signed key fails via bastion

I'm setting up some servers for a new system and decided to do things a little bit differently. I'm running into an issue that I just can't seem to get past though. My desired configuration is having ...
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Could not resolve hostname nodename nor servname provided, or not known only with rsync

I work with sensitive data, so my host requires that I use a bastion to access the server. I can connect to the server without any problem in SSH using the following command: ssh userremotemachine@...
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Allowing external access to bastion hosts on aws

I am trying to create a few bastion hosts in my VPC on aws to connect to my databases that are located in a private subnet. I am using this aws Quick start. I understand the basics of CIDR blocks ...
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AWS - Bastion checking IAM permissions?

Is it possible to set up a bastion host in AWS that would be checking IAM to check if given user can connect to specific EC2 instance? It might be a bit blurry but the idea is following. Let's ...
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Is connection to Bastion Server Open to Anyone

My team uses a Bastion Server as a tunnel server to secure our AWS EC2 instances. The connection to Bastion was configured based on this article. To the best of my understanding, the Bastion server ...
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GCP: Run kubectl exec on private cluster over proxy

I have a private kubernetes cluster with private ip. In order to access it i have set up a bastion host with squid proxy. It looks like this: My host -> bastion -> private cloud Regular ...
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SSH through bastion host gives: open failed: connect failed: Connection timed out

We have bastion server B. We need to SSH from A through B to C, using private key (we use keepass with keeAgent). In the bastion I have: AllowTcpForwarding yes. I tried to use proxyCammand: Host ...
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Bastion server: use TCP forwarding VS placing private key on server

We have bastion server B. We need to SSH from A through B to C, using private key. What is the better option: Put the private SSH key on server B. We read that it's a bad idea to do that in a ...
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PuTTY configuration with plink for keyboard-interactive authentication

Please see EDIT #2 for latest findings I've looked at other similar questions but, unfortunately, none of them seemed to help. This one is the closest and my symptoms are similar. Here's the issue: ...
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Reaching any server on a separate network with proxy+ssh

I have server A sitting in network A. Server A is able to connect to a bastion host in network B via ssh. This bastion host is able to reach any port on any server in network B. From any server in ...
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How to use socket file to access server if SSH Agent forwarding is enabled

I have bastion host. I connect to the bastion host using username/password. And I have private key for destination Server. Flow: Local Machine -> Bastion -> Destination I know that It's ...
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Setting up SSH jump box for Ansible - can't connect

I'm trying to use Ansible to deploy to an AWS host that does not have a public IP address. I'm able to reach the host manually by ssh onto a jump box, and on that box ssh onto the private machine ...
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Securely sharing SSH access in a team with SSH bastion

I need to share SSH access to a number of servers with my teammates and looking for a secure way to do it. I came up with a configuration involving a SSH bastion server, but not sure how (and if) it ...
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Eroor: $ ssh: Could not resolve hostname [HOSTNAME]: Name or service not known

I am on windows 10 machine. I need to ssh to our Bastion and then do port forwarding to connect to AWS instance. I have a config file that I use to ssh. My config file is as following: Host [host] ...
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SSH Tunnel through bastion host

I'm having an issue with establishing an ssh tunnel through a bastion host. Having looked through various SE questions which potentially solve the problem, nothing has. My ssh config file (local) ...
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Can we use Linux Bastion Server to connect to Windows instance in AWS private subnet?

I have a windows local desktop and putty installed on it. Now I want to know - In AWS setup whether we can use Linux Bastion host to connect to Windows Ec2 instances in private subnet by using agent ...
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Restrict ssh users remote IP via LDAP record

Our setup: LDAP server - OpenLDAP with openssh and sudo schemas. Bastion server - accepts SSH from anywhere and authenticates users via public keys stored in LDAP (using sssd) Destination server[s] - ...
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SSH host key checking cannot disable when using proxy jump

I am trying to SSH through a jumpbox, but SSH seems to be intent on checking host keys for the jumpbox, even though I'm telling it not to, using the normal -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o ...
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Bastion Server + EC2 Instances

I would to protect my VPC using a bastion. So I add to the bastion only the public keys. But I have some EC2 instances inside my VPC. Do I need to add the public both to bastion and EC2 instances?
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SSH through intermediate host fails only on myuser@mymac but works elsewhere

I am not able to connect via ssh to one of my datacenter nodes using my user on my macbook. This is a recent problem, and it was perfectly funtional since ~ a couple of weeks ago. Strangely, this ...
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how to access host behind a bastion?

I have bunch of hosts that can be accessed only from bastion hosts ( A linux server where I can ssh into and access my real host ). Iam able to access it using firefox with socks proxy, now How can I ...
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ssh-keyscan through a bastion

I have some test servers running behind a bastion on Openstack. The test stack gets deleted and created often. After the stack is created I run a set of Ansible scripts to install and configure the ...
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Using bastionssh with config file

I am attempting to use bastionssh to access a number of other servers. My point of contact is a colleague who is based on the other side of the world so getting information can be tricky. He provided ...
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Connect to RabbitMQ (Amqp) via ssh gateway

I have the following situation: DevMachine (D) need to connect to a gateway/bastion server (G) and then be able to talk to another server serving RabbitMQ (R) traffic on port 5672. I tried using an ...
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Ansible - Access through Bastion w/ MFA

In my current environment, I have all my Linux servers only accessible through a bastion host, which has MFA enabled. I've managed to get Ansible to successfully talk to servers through the bastion, ...
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