Questions tagged [ssh-agent]
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Use a stored passphrase in keepassxc to logon
I work on a Fedora client and created a new keypair. I want to use KeepassXC to store the private key and passphrase and followed the steps in the documentation.
create a keypair with a passphrase
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ssh connection error (ssh_config attached)
(base) haohao@zhangjunhaodebijixingdiannao .ssh % sudo ssh [email protected] -v
OpenSSH_9.9p1, LibreSSL 3.3.6
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 19: ...
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How to unlock ssh passphrase only if it was not already added to ssh-agent?
I have a script that collects information from multiple ssh hosts at once, so it needs the ssh passphrase to be unlocked and loaded into ssh-agent before spawning connections in parallel. All hosts ...
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How to select SSH key by fingerprint from ssh-agent, while using `IdentitiesOnly yes` option?
This would be useful in situations where:
serving SSH keys via KeePass where there is no file path, and
there are otherwise too many keys: as ssh tries all of them and some hosts are configured to ...
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Even if SSH is set up, it always asks for the password when logging into the server
I have an Ubuntu server. I use ssh to access it. It worked fine at first. When user@IP is given along with SSH key, it will log into the server without asking for password. But recently, even with SSH,...
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ssh prompts for password despite gcr-ssh-agent
I'm trying to set up GNOME-Keyring such that when it is unlocked after login, it will also allow me to use my SSH key, which is encrypted.
This is a Debian 12 system. The key in question is an ed25519 ...
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Understand SSH AgentForwarding per Host specification
Disclaimer: originally I asked this question on StackOverflow and it was legitimately marked off-topic and think it fits better here. In the meantime I found the problem (see intermediate solution ...
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PuTTY, Cygwin, ssh-pageant: unable to connect to pipe, error: 3
On a new Windows 11 system, with Cygwin, using the ssh-pageant version 1.4 which comes with Cygwin, I cannot make it work with PuTTY 0.80. The ssh client reports "unable to connect to pipe, error:...
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SSH agent forwarding when Host and Hostname different
On my client I have an SSH agent setup and the following example config
Host gitserver
Hostname gitserver.example.com
ForwardAgent yes
User git
IdentityFile C:\Users\user\.ssh\id_rsa.pub
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What is the host key (the one from ssh connection) and how is it different from public-private key pair?
The situation is that I've had a VPS created previously. It was all set up, private-public key authentication, root login turned off, password login turned off. Everything was set up.
Then this server ...
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The ssh-agent process is not visible to the user who created it but is visible to root
I have adopted the following snippet from Visual Studio Code's documentaion to create an ssh-agent on login:
if [ -z "$SSH_AUTH_SOCK" ]; then
# Check for a currently running instance of ...
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Avoid SSH AgentForwarding of incompatible keys
Good morning,
I have one ed25519-sk key (using a hardware token), which I need only on my personal machine for some high security servers (all Debian). This key type is supported by OpenSSH 8.3+. We ...
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How to create an SSH tunneling agent via HTTPS?
How to allow SSH when the network is blocked on all ports except HTTP and HTTPS?
I'm curious to know how I can create a SSH tunnel which allows me to SSH via 443 and will work even after the server is ...
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Can't ssh into cloud shell
I try to ssh from my local host to GCP cloud shell and get the error:
$ gcloud cloud-shell ssh --authorize-session
sign_and_send_pubkey: signing failed for RSA "/home/kossak/.ssh/...
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How to check if SSH agent forwarding is running, from the remote server?
Locally, I've turned on the SSH agent and I've added my key:
$ eval $(ssh-agent)
Agent pid 80
$ ssh-add
Identity added: /c/Users/...../.ssh/id_rsa (.....@........)
In my ~/.ssh/config, I have this:
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