SSH (Secure SHell) is a protocol for running commands on a remote computer.
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Groups differ from the local ones when logging in remotely
We store our users in LDAP, alongside some groups that have meaning across different systems (organizational roles including wheel). There are also groups local to workstations, e.g. audio or video ...
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Remote-Accesible Live-Distribution(aka LiveCD)
I'm looking for a live-distribution (live CD or the likes) which comes - per default - with sshd running at startup.
I want to check the components of my laptop whose graphics has died ...
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SSH connection timing out
I am trying to connect to an external host that is living in the Internet.
From my laptop I can ssh fine. From an Ubuntu 12.10 server, the connection times out.
Since they're in the same network, ...
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Close ssh session that has ControlPersist and is kept alive in the background
I have ControlPersist 4h in my .ssh/config and it works perfectly,
Every now and then I need to connect to this server that requires some special authentication, and if I don't use that account for ...
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is it possible to trigger `ssh-add <key>` only when I ssh into a box? (from Cygwin)
I've got my .bash_profile set up to eval $(ssh-agent) so I can quickly connect to servers. If I add ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa_my_key to my .bash_profile as well, I'll have to type the ssh key passphrase ...
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Limited SSH user on Ubuntu 12
I'm running Minecraft on a server. How can I give my friend SSH access just to the minecraft folder (a root folder), the screen command, and some ports?
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Tunnelling VPN through SSH mac
I have a pptp VPN server set up on my Raspberry Pi at home, and it works really well, except when I'm stuck behind my college's firewall. I can SSH into it through commonly open firewall ports (443, ...
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ssh with identical machines
I have two identical beaglebones that I'm working with. They have the same hostname and originally had the same IP, though I changed one to see if that made a difference. They're going to be deployed ...
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Different “history” command output after reconnecting via SSH
Why do I get different results for the "history" command for the same user after I reconnect a disconnected SSH session?
I connect to a server using putty (SSH), say as root
My network gets ...
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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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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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How do I push a Mercurial repository to BitBucket over ssh?
I created a public key for ssh and registered that key with BitBucket. I then attempted to push:
$ hg push ssh://jhayward@bitbucket.org/johncharrell/[project name]
pushing to ...
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Specifying outgoing interface for SSH tunnel
I have a machine with two public IP addresses on two interfaces. This machine is running sshd. Is there a way to specify, when creating a tunnel with a SOCKS interface (i.e. -D), which interface to ...
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Cannot connect to ssh from crontab
I can create ssh connection from the command line with this command(without password):
ssh -R 9900:localhost:22 user@host
I need to run this command whenever the system reboots, so I put it in a ...
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tmux with iterm2 attach a remote session
I'm using the tmux integrating with iterm2, which can create a tab in iterm 2 for each window created by tmux.
But somehow this doesn't make much sense for the usual ssh scenario, where we first ssh ...
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emacs fonts from ssh not as good as locally installed
How can I have the same emacs fonts and antialiasing configuration that I have in my local Ubuntu 12.04 also working when I open an emacs session via ssh to a CentOS 5 system?
EDIT: I didn't get an ...
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Synchronizing subdirectory with root directory
I have files like this on my linux web server:
folder1/ <- main, this is where users of my page are led to
folder1/testing/ <- copy of folder1(without folder1/testing/) to modify and optimize ...
