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SSH agent loses keys after logging out

I added my SSH key having typed ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa and ssh-add -l printed my key. But after logging out and logging in again I see The agent has no identities. I've tried setting a very ...
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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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Transfering files using ssh

I've found the following command pretty convenient for transferring files to servers I have ssh access to: cat myfile.txt | ssh my.host.edu "cat > myfile.txt" Is there a similarly convenient ...
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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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Copy modified files from one server to other

Scenario: 2 Servers (*.12 and *.13) CakePHP "application" on both of them. *.12 is "Production" Server *.13 is "Development" Server Now i want to copy all files modified the last 2 days from test ...
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(SSH) Is it dangerous to close terminal without “exit”?

This happened many times. While the SSH active, I'm so tired and just close the terminal without exit Is it dangerous to doing like that?
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access a command line via a web browser

2 questions: Question 1 My job blocks ssh which means that I cannot ssh to my home server. However, they do allow https out. Is there a package out there for ubuntu that will allow me to connect to ...
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ubuntu:terminal+ssh+vim, resize

Background: OS:ubuntu 12.04 Display: two, one is laptop, and another is a extended monitor, which is bigger. Problem: Open a gnome-terminal in the bigger display, and log on the remote Linux ...
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How to prevent shutdown when an SSH user is logged in?

I'm administrating a networked environment and I had an interesting situation arise yesterday. When a host is required to shutdown by a regular user, it refuses to do so if other users are logged in ...
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SSH host key keeps changing

I am trying to set up a web service (using the Play Framework) on an Ubuntu machine on the network. However, I am experiencing intermittent failures connecting to it, not being able to connect to it ...
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disabling ssh session expiration

I am installed Ubuntu on Virtual Box, and use xshell (a remote terminal application) to ssh to ubuntu. when I hibernate computer during night, after powering it on, the session is expired and I should ...
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FreeNX on Ubuntu: “The connection with remote server was shut down.”

I've been using FreeNX on my Ubuntu machine for many months and just yesterday I've begun having troubles using it. What happens is that the FreeNX client (which is on my Windows machine) would ...
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Unable to ssh out from my laptop

I'm unable to ssh from a particular machine, either from my Ubuntu 12.04 install or my Windows Vista install (using putty). I'm trying to ssh into a remote machine where I have an account, but I keep ...
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How to limit ssh access for localhost only?

I need to forbid ssh access (except localhost) for specified user. So. ssh localhost should work. ssh hostname from outside should not work for that user. All other users should work as usual. ...
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A Web ssh/telnet client

I'm in kind of a tight spot right now. I wanted to know if someone has seen a HTML, or PHP web ssh client as both my company and school block everything besides port 80. I'm a control freak when it ...
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scp permission denied after 'hardening' with bastille

I recently 'hardened' two Ubuntu servers using Bastille, and now I get permission denied: scp whenever I try to scp files in. SSH login works fine. I've tried adding an /scp-dump folder with 777 ...
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Rebooting makes me lose my password-less keys on other machines

When I reboot my machine (as I did today) I seem to lose some functionality, specifically my previous ssh keys that I had copied over to other machines that had allowed me to login without a password ...
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Can't do SSH public key login under encrypted home

I can't do ssh public key login to my server and I think this issue is related to the fact my home is encrypted. I chose the option "encrypt my home folder" under the Ubuntu install setup. The ...
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SSH + Sudo + Expect in Bash script: Run command with sudo in remote machine

I am trying to automate the deploy of some .deb packages with an script. I want to execute sudo dpkg -i $myDeb.deb in a list of remote machines I can access with ssh. I've tried to automate the ...
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How can I share a desktop / log in graphically for an Ubuntu that I have ssh but not console access to?

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/share-your-ubuntu-desktop-using-remote-desktop.html tells how to share a desktop by setting multiple features from within a GUI. Is there such a HOWTO that is based on ssh ...
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Problem with SSH “ Write failed: Broken pipe ” [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: What does the Broken pipe message mean in an SSH session? I run a program on server with SSH ! the program runs normaly and after a period of time i receve a message ...
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SSH login with clear text password as a parameter?

I need to login to a user that I've created on a remote host running Ubuntu. I can't use an ssh key because the ssh login will happen from a bash script ran within a server that I wont have access to ...
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SSH into Ubuntu VM remotely

I don't have much Linux or networking experience, but I'm trying to SSH into an Ubuntu virtual machine from outside of my home network. The Ubuntu virtual machine (running inside VirtualBox) is ...
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Can a linux user change their password without knowing the current password?

I'm setting up a few ubuntu boxes, and using opscode's chef as a configuration tool. It would be fairly easy to install public keys for each user on each of these servers, and disable password ...
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Allowing an entire subnet on Ubuntu server 11.10

I am trying to allow all hosts in my subnet to connect to a server I have running in VirtualBox with ssh. I have tried several different methods so far, none of which have made any progress. What I ...
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How can I resolve the “invalid ELF header” warning when trying to SSH and what does it mean?

I'm getting some kind of warning when checking my connection to github. Why is it happening and how can I resolve it? $ ssh -TI ~/.ssh/id_rsa git@github.com dlopen /home/ubuntu/.ssh/id_rsa failed: ...
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Is it possible to redirect X of an ssh session to the display of a connected vncviewer

I have a setup of three machines. Machine A runs a vncserver and an ssh server, Machine B runs a vncviewer, Machine C runs an ssh client. The vncviewer on B connects to the vnc server on A. 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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SSH, FTP, HTTP stopped working

I'm facing a problem with a Linux webserver of mine. It's a VM Ubuntu 10.4 LTS which runs a Wordpress network site. Out of the blue with no changes being made on the back end, ftp has stopped as has ...
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Ubuntu Server - Access webserver from other LAN computer, setting up SSH or FTP, closing ports?

I'm running Ubuntu 11.10 x64 Server, with apache2 installed. The setup is pretty much default configuration. I have a few questions about; DocumentRoot/Static IP/Connect from LAN/SSH or ...
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SVN checkout under a different user name

When I ssh into my server I log in under root or my user on the system. However, when I checkout from my svn repos then are then owned by either root or my user, and therefore all files deployed to ...
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How can I track who SSH'es into my linux machine?

I'm running Ubuntu 10.04. Is there a way I can get a daily report of who has logged onto the box, what time, and even - this may be asking too much - a report of the commands they used? This is a ...
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How can I access my work computer via SSH (Teamviewer works)?

I have a Ubuntu 11.10 system both at home and at work. I would like to connect to my work computer via SSH but it is inaccessible (even ping does not work). Teamviewer however does work, and I ...
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Access a linux machine from a windows machine

I have two laptops, one is installed with Ubuntu 10.04, the other one is installed with Windows XP. The Ubuntu laptop is located in one place with internet connection while the windows laptop is in ...
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X Session / xdmx, keybindings lost

I am using startx (with Xdmx) to run a remote session on another computer. However, when I do this, keybindings (especially control, alt and the cursor keys) are not correct on the remote ...
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Chroot debian squeeze for shell access

A user requires shell access to an Ubuntu server from the WAN side. There are many shell accounts with simple passwords. So shell port (port 22) is blocked in the firewall. For my WAN side user I am ...
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Why do I get an “rsync: failed to set times on … : Operation not permitted (1)” error on Ubuntu 10.10 with SME Server 7.4?

I am trying to cron an rsync via ssh between two fileservers that are running SME Server 7.4 and Ubuntu 10.10, respectively. The first rsync worked just fine (for reasons that I do not know), but now, ...
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How do I work with GUI tools over a remote server?

I have an Ubuntu server running on EC2 (which I didn't install myself, just picked up an AMI). So far I'm using putty to work with it, but I am wondering how to work on it with GUI tools (I'm not ...
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ssh-agent error on ubuntu server 10.04 LTS

I have an Ubuntu Server 10.04 installation on Linode. I am trying to use ssh-agent to stop typing my passphrase everytime I need to push some changes to GitHub. I am using the script provided by ...
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View Script Over SSH?

A friend, using a remote machine, SSHed to my machine and ran the following python script: while (1): ....print "hello world" (this script simply prints 'hello world' continuously). I am now ...