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How to troubleshoot failed X11 forwarding with ssh?

When I try to establish an X11-forwarding connection to myserver, I get the following error: % ssh -X myserver xlogo X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication. X11 connection rejected ...
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Keep the ssh session

I am using Macbook developing a client application. I want to access server logs, so I opened a shell terminal and established a ssh connection to the server and access the log file there by ...
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Transferring Files SSH SCP Error Message: 'Stdin: is not a tty'

I am using a Macbook SSH terminal and generated RSA key pairs and uploaded remote id_rsa.pub with approved permissions. I can connect with remote Apache web server. I can create, open, move, modify ...
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SSH LocalCommand on exit

In ~/.ssh/config you can use the LocalCommand directive to execute a local command whenever you connect to a remote machine via SSH. But how do I execute a command when I exit an SSH connection? It ...
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Re-install ssh-keygen on unix/mac

Something is wrong with the way my Mac generates ssh keys. This has been the second time where I've created a key with ssh-keygen -t rsa. When I paste the created id_rsa.pub to use in a connecting ...
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Bypass ssh password prompt from a shell script

I've got a shell script that ssh'es into a server using public key authentication and runs a command on that machine. This works fine on machines where the users have installed the public key on the ...
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Opening files from Ubuntu server over ssh from Mac Terminal

So I SSH into a Ubuntu server and try to open the file in a Mac program (Coda) and get an error: Couldn't get a file descriptor referring to the console Using the command open myfile.html This ...
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How do I build Lynx with SSL on Mac OS X?

I'd like to build and install Lynx on Mac OS X. I've found out that building is as simple as running ./configure, but I'm having trouble building with SSL support. I've downloaded openSSL. How do I ...
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Running vim on a remote Linux machine “freezes” OS X SSH connection

(cross-posted this from SuperUser as the question seems more relevant to this audience) I am attempting to SSH to a Linux (Fedora 14) machine and then open up vim to edit a file, however on my new ...
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I can't ssh on localhost at a certain port on os x

Here are basics information: $ which ssh /opt/local/bin/ssh It's like that because I'm using MacPorts and it did install there. I did the sudo port load openssh When doing a netstat -an | grep ...
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In OSX ssh-keygen creates a key but then the session won't connect

I made a key, but it logs me back out as i try to setup passphraseless logins to localhost: $ rsa-keygen -t rsa $ cat id_rsa.pub > authorized_keys $ ssh localhost The authenticity of host ...
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OS X: how to keep the computer from sleeping during a ssh session

When I ssh into a OS X computer on my network the session lasts until the OS X goes into sleep mode. Is there a way to prevent this from happening during my SSH session, apart from physically bumping ...
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How can I tell what version of OS X I'm on from the command line?

I frequently find myself SSHing into various OS X machines, and it'd be useful if I could tell what version of OS X I was on when I'm doing that. uname -a doesn't quite work, since Darwin kernel ...