Questions tagged [ssh]
Secure Shell; a network protocol that allows data transfer over a secure channel between two networked devices.
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How to prevent gnu screen capturing the mouse?
I want to use local scrollback on my terminal, whilst using gnu screen. That's because my network connection is incredibly slow, so using screen's scrollback is very slow. Local scrollback is much ...
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Is it possible to make WinSCP use my SSH config file?
I use SSH-based tools on Windows, which use configuration files in %HOME%\.ssh\.
Is it possible to make WinSCP use that configuration file too, so I only have to manage one configuration?
It's ...
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Why is there no UDP port forwarding in SSH?
I know SSH can forward TCP ports, not UDP. I'm not seeking help to circumvent this restriction, this subject is covered here.
I'd like to know what is the reason SSH never got UDP forwarding ability. ...
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Attach to the same tmux session from different nodes of a cluster
I'm working on a computing cluster which has several hundreds of nodes. A load-balancing scheme picks an idle node to login to when ssh-ing into the cluster. As a result, it is very unlikely to re-...
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Why can’t I type during git clone PuTTy connection?
I want to clone git repo from CLI in Windows. When I'm executing:
git clone '...'
I am then getting:
The server's rsa2 key fingerprint is:
ssh-rsa blablabla
If you trust this ...
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ssh randomly can connect, and sometimes "kex_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host"
Connecting to my server has never been a problem. But now I've added a mesh router in bridge mode to my regular router, and when I try to ssh to my server, sometimes it works fine, and other times ...
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Moving mouse in iTerm causes characters to be to printed to prompt
I am having an issue with iTerm that happens to me intermittently. When I am using iTerm and I move the mouse up and down, or click a bunch of random characters are printed to the prompt:
I am in a ...
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Can't open an SSH session because of OpenSSL version mismatch
I just ran apt-get upgrade, and according to /var/log/apt/history.log, openssl has been updated to version 1.0.1e-2+rvt+deb7u7. Now I have one SSH session still open, but I can't open another one. I ...
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Why does a shared connection frequently close when opening a new connection?
I'm making heavy use of reusing a shared connection which I open to a remote box at the beginning of my workday.
My .ssh/config looks somewhat like this:
ControlMaster auto
ControlPath ~/.ssh/control:%...
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How to route OpenVpn traffic through another server?
I have a server (ubuntu 22.04) with Openvpn on it on port 443 (with docker image kylemanna/docker-openvpn). It is working with no problem and the clients can connect to it. The problem is that the ...
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Cannot use `open` command via SSH on Mac
I have a workflow where I use SSH in terminal in conjunction with remote desktop, and I often use the open command in SSH to open something in the GUI.
However, recently it stopped working with the ...
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Force restart of systemd-logind.service
I'm having trouble login using ssh on one server, the connection takes too long. I
have had the same situation before on a different server and restarting systemd-logind.service worked.
I tried to ...
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Reverse sshfs over ssh
I want to mount dir on remote machine from host machine connected over ssh preferably via ssh tunnel; with method described below.
how to mount local directory to remote like sshfs?
But if get peer ...
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How do I remote SSH into an IPv6 address behind a router firewall?
I have this fancy new ubuntu server I just built assembled, and I'm trying to set up ssh from anywhere so I can keep it headless.
I've been able to set it up locally, and as long as I'm on the ...
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gpg-agent asks for ssh password, although the private key has no password set
I am using gpg-agent to manage my github ssh key. I generate my (private) ssh key via openpgpg2ssh from my private gpg key. Unfortunately, although my private gpg key is not password protected, gpg-...
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