Questions tagged [openssh]
OpenSSH (OpenBSD Secure Shell) is a set of computer programs providing encrypted communication sessions over a computer network using the SSH protocol.
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ssh: automatically accept keys
I've written this small utility script:
for h in $SERVER_LIST; do ssh $h "uptime"; done
When a new server is added to $SERVER_LIST, the script is stopped with:
The authenticity of host 'blah.blah....
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Does ssh key need to be named id_rsa?
I have come across this problem a couple of times when creating build servers with keyed authentication.
I was wondering if anyone else has experience this. I have a couple of keys for my current ...
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How to solve 'Connection refused' errors in SSH connection?
I have an Ubuntu Server 10.10 32-bit in my home. I'm making SSH connections to it from my PC via Putty.
The problem is, sometimes I'm able to login seamlessly. However, sometimes it gives me an error ...
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What does 'without password' mean in sshd_config file?
I just installed Ubuntu 14.04 on my server and I was setting up all my config files when I came across this in my sshd_config file:
# Authentication:
LoginGraceTime 120
PermitRootLogin without-...
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How to setup a restricted SFTP server on Ubuntu?
I would like to know how to set up root, sudo, sftp-only user accounts which won't be required public key authentication at log in. I would also like to know how to set up sftp-only users' home ...
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How do I install an SSH private key generated by PuTTYgen?
I set up my Linux server to accept connections from my home PC by adding the public key generated by PuTTYgen to the authorized_keys file.
Now I'm trying to connect to the same machine, but this time ...
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Host alias for ssh
There are a few SSH destinations I will frequently be connecting to and I'm wondering if rather than remember the IP address I can create a host alias for them. I'd like to be able to use...
ssh -p ...
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How to set up remote desktop sharing through SSH?
Is there a way to view (and control) a remote desktop through SSH? I will not have physical access to the remote host machine.
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How can I reconnect to a ssh session after a broken pipe?
So I was running apt-get upgrade on a server when the router decided it had been too long since it last made me angry: It dropped all connection. Moral of the story is to use screen a lot when you're ...
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SSH Connection Error: No route to host
There are three machines in this scenario:
Desktop A : [email protected]
Laptop A : [email protected]
Machine B : [email protected]
All the machines have Ubuntu 11.04 (Desktop A is a 64bit one) and have both ...
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passwordless ssh not working
I've tried to setup a password-less ssh b/w A to B and B to A as well.
Generated the public and private key using ssh-keygen -trsa on both the machines.
Used the ssh-copy-id utility to copy the ...
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SSH error: Permission denied, please try again
I have an Ubuntu server setup using amazon ec2 instance. I need to connect my desktop (which is also a ubuntu machine) to the ubuntu server using SSH.
I have installed open-ssh in ubuntu server. I ...
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Connecting to Ubuntu server via SSH externally
I have recently installed Ubuntu Server 12.04 (Precise Pangolin) and intend to use it primarily as a file server. I am completely new to Linux, so this is a pretty big learning curve. Yesterday I was ...
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Start SSH automatically on boot
Completely brand new to linux and Ubnuntu. Setting up a machine to do deep learning/neural networks. So far it is going well. Got everything installed and running. I want to be able to ssh from my Mac ...
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What's the difference between ssh and openssh packages?
I am setting up a LAMP server and want to use SSH. I saw a command for sudo apt-get install ssh and wondered if it was the same thing as openssh?
If I was to now do a apt-get install openssh would I ...
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Error `could not load host key` when trying to recreate SSH host keys
I am trying to recreate the ssh-server host keys.
I have at least two ways to do this:
With dpkg-reconfigure
dpkg-reconfigure openssh-server
This works fine, but I cannot give the key length then. ...
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Where is the .ssh directory?
I installed openssh, but I can't find the .ssh directory. Could anyone be able to tell me where could I find this directory?
P.S. I installed Ubuntu 16.10 as a virtual machine.
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Key based SSH login that requires both key AND password
My problem is :
I developed successfully RSA Key based ssh login on board from system.
When a client logs in for the first time, ask about private key and passphrase also which works fine.
In second ...
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ssh refusing connection with message "no hostkey alg"
My SSH connections worked well, but from last week SSH from my laptop to my board refusing connection. I can make a SSH connection from the board to laptop, but not vice-versa. I tried that with my ...
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key_load_public: invalid format with scp or git clone on Ubuntu 15.10
After a fresh install of Ubuntu 15.10, when using scp or git clone, I get the following warning (the command itself doesn't fail): key_load_public: invalid format
How can I get rid of this warning?
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How do I setup SSH key based authentication for GitHub by using ~/.ssh/config file?
I am trying to set up my SSH keys for GitHub and created a new SSH key for the same. I have managed to setup the SSH key but I wish to retain these settings and save them in the configuration file ~/....
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SSH Server cannot be found - Even though installed
I have a machine running Ubuntu 18.04 LTS where I cannot seem to get SSH Server working.
I installed SSHServer using:
sudo apt install openssh-server
but I am getting the following when I try to ...
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Cannot ssh into Ubuntu Server by hostname
I just set up Ubuntu 12.04 Server on an old box laying around, connected to my router via ethernet. I set up openssh-server as instructed for remote access, but I cannot ssh into it from my laptop ...
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How to generate Openssl .pem file and where we have to place it
I want to generate a OpenSSL .pem file to allow the remote login via ssh using .pem file at the place of password.
I am able to generate key as well as .crt and .pem file using the following
sudo ...
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What causes SSH problems after rebooting a 14.04 server?
Why does rebooting a server running Ubuntu 14.04 give me 'Connection refused' errors?
I see ssh: connect to host <IP-address-here> port 22: Connection refused but only for 14.04 and only after ...
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Can SSH with IP but not host name?
When I SSH directly to the server's IP address, it works. (ssh [email protected]) For reference, here is the resulting prompt:
michael@noranetserver:~$
However ssh-ing by name doesn't work like ...
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How can I access my Ubuntu phone over ssh?
Whenever I try to run apt-get install openssh-server I get the following errors:
root@ubuntu-phablet:/home/hablet# apt-get install openssh-server
W: Not using locking for read only lock file /var/lib/...
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How do I re-issue OpenSSL snakeoil cert?
In light of the recent heartbleed fiasco and whatnot I too have been scrambling to up security on some servers. My question is how do I reissue the Snakeoil cert that comes with Openssl?
The cert ...
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openssh server: rejected send message
When I tried to restart the ssh server on my ubuntu box, I got
me@me-one:~$ service ssh restart
restart: Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.63" (uid=1000 pid=3354 ...
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How to disable autostart of SSHD in Ubuntu 15.04
In older versions of Ubuntu I commented out the "start on ..." line in /etc/init/ssh.conf. This worked well, but not in Ubuntu 15.04.
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libcrypto.so.1.0.0: no version information available (required by ssh)
I get the following error:
jalal@klein:~$ ssh -i "hyunwoo_key.pem" [email protected]
ssh: /home/jalal/computer_vision/MCR/v901/bin/glnxa64/libcrypto.so.1.0.0: no version ...
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Is possible to upgrade openssh-server OpenSSH_7.6p1, to OpenSSH_8.0p1?
Tried to install OpenSSH_8.0p1 but installed OpenSSh Client only.
sudo apt install openssl-server Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable ...
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What is the difference between PGP and RSA protocols?
PGP and RSA protocols are the two widely used protocols in a number of servers and email applications for security with public/private key pair.
What is the difference between them? What other popular ...
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How to enter the Default Keyring password via the command line?
Is there a way to enter the default keyring password using the command line?
For instance:
You have a remote setup of Ubuntu 10.10 thats set to auto login. You don't want to remove
the keyring ...
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Connection timeout for ssh server
I'm trying to setup openssh-server, but I'm having some issues connecting. I changed the port to something non-standard (57757) and then set my router to forward to that port. On my LAN, I'm able to ...
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Enabling and disabling sshd at boot via systemd
I have openssh-server installed but I'd like to sometimes leave the sshd service off by default at boot, and only start it from the terminal as needed.
Based on the the advice of many other questions,...
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Difference between Software Selection Servers
I am installing Ubuntu Server, and I want to know what is the difference between these:
[ ] OpenSSH server
[ ] DNS server
[ ] LAMP server
[ ] Mail server
[ ] PostgreSQL server
[ ] Print server
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I am getting a Putty attempted incorrect protocol errors when I SSH into my server from Windows
I have had Putty connecting via SSH to my Ubuntu 12.10 server for several months. Yesterday I began to get the following error every time I connect:
PuTTY X11 proxy: wrong authentication protocol ...
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apt-get dependency issue Open-SSH Client
This is on an Ubuntu 12.04 Server.
I'm getting this error when trying to run any apt-get install (trying to install unrelated, arbitrary packages):
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ...
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openssh-server package not available on 12.04.2
I have just done a fresh install of 12.04.2 and found out that i could not ssh to this PC.
I tried to install openssh-server but it said that "Package openssh-server is not available..."
What is ...
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How to enable SSH on boot in Ubuntu MATE
I have installed Ubuntu Mate 16.04.2 LTS on my Pi2 and installed OpenSSH but when the Pi starts/restarts SSH does not automatically turn on.
I've tried sudo systemct1 enable ssh but all I get is "...
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SSH problem after update
Setting up openssh-server (1:5.3p1-3ubuntu7) ...
Creating SSH2 RSA key; this may take some time ...
Creating SSH2 DSA key; this may take some time ...
start: Job failed to start
Can't initialize ...
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Bizarre SSH Problem - It won't even start
I recently got Ubuntu 12.04 Precise, got it up and running with some MediaWiki software, static IP on the box and router and was able to access the main page even from a cell phone. Everything seemed ...
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Why do I've two entries per server in known_hosts file?
On my mac I've 1 entry per server in the ~/.ssh/known_hosts file, in Ubuntu I noticed there are two created per server. Why is that?
Format is:
|1|wwwwwwwwwwwwwww=|wwwwwwwwww= ecdsa-sha2-nistp256 ...
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Limit SFTP user access to specified directory
I have a Ubuntu 14.04 server installed with open ssh. I'd like to configure sftp for customers to be able to download files only. In other words, I put files in a directory that they are jailed to. ...
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NX/SSH remote access with Remmina
After many days and a lot of frustration, I managed to get freenx to work on my home server. I can connect to it with nomachine's linux client, but I want to use Remmina for this purpose. The problem ...
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Installed 15.04, cannot restart ssh daemon [duplicate]
As the title says, I installed 15.04. One of the first things I did was sudo apt-get install openssh-server.
The next command was sudo restart ssh, which is greeted with an output of:
restart: ...
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No more authentication methods to try. Permission denied (publickey)
I have set up a home network behind a router a while ago and use openssh to access the network consisting of my laptop, wife's netbook and my desktop all running l/x/ubuntu 12.04. This worked ...
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How could I shutdown a remote host, in my network thru ssh, with a local host?
The question is simple.
What would be the script I would have to use to shut down a computer in my network thru ssh.
Normaly i would go to command line and:
ssh desktop
delik@desktop's password:
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X11 forwarding in SSH
How to run X11 GUI applications from a remote server using SSH?
For example:
my first desktop 192.168.1.1
my second desktop IP 192.168.1.12
I 'm sshing from my first desktop to the second and i ...
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