SSH is a network protocol that will allow two networked devices to exchange data on a secure channel. SSH was designed as a replacement for the insecure telnet and rlogin protocols that send data (including authentication) as plain text. SSH is most commonly used in Unix-derived systems such as OS ...
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OpenVPN Tunnel in Tunnel
I want to connect to my OpenVPN server which inside the campus network from the internet.
Getting into the campus network is possible through SSH or (another) OpenVPN connection. After that I can ...
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How often should an SSH key pair be changed? [migrated]
I've been using a 1024-bit RSA key for passwordless SSH between my own systems for years. More recently I've also started using it for passwordless access to my hosting providers and to source code ...
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avoid X11 forwarding from Mac to linux
I need to run a program on Mac remotely via ssh from a linux machine. The funny thing about the program is that it has a command line interface, but it always creates a GUI window, even if this is not ...
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Removing log files through SSH
I host my website at GoDaddy. I have a 9GB log file that I want to delete. I've logged in via SSH as root.
How do I delete the log file?
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Propagating changes to multiple Linux servers with one command
So, I have a dozen of CentOS Linux servers. By and large, their configuration is mostly the same.
Sometimes I need to add extra cron job (separate crontab file in /etc/cron.d/), and/or copy over a ...
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Is there a way to fix Cluster-SSH windows positions automatically?
Have you used Cluster-SSH? It's a GUI (frontend) to secure shell (ssh) which function it's to let you write the very same commands to a lot of hosts.
If you open a lot of hosts at the same time, ...
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Is it better to run OpenSSH in cygwin or freesshd (on Windows Server 2003)
I found an article on Petri that explains how to install OpenSSH to Windows via cygwin. I know that OpenSSH is basically the standard SSH server for *nix distros and was wondering if that means it's ...
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Does SSHFS copy the files locally all at once, or only when I cd into them?
If I sshfs an entire filesystem at the root directory, does that mean it will download the entire root directory? Is that how SSHFS works, it physicallly downloads the whole thing? Or does it fetch ...
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Ubuntu:ssh: connect to host github.com port 22: No route to host
I am using Ubuntu 11.10 and followed the help doc at github.com to set up git and connect to github but when I got to step 5 of the set up ssh keys section :Test everything out , When I used this ...
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Why would anyone install openssh-client instead of openssh-server?
I installed openssh-server on two pc's. I can connect from both from the one to the other. So if openssh-server sends as well as receives ssh, why would you install the openssh-client, just to make ...
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SSH multihop configuration
I've been trying to setup some sort of configuration on my laptop , so I'd be able to connect to a server using SSH , directly , which i have indirect access to ,
i've found a great configuration ...
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OpenVPN vs. SOCKS proxy
I've been trying to set up a secure connection over which I can browse the internet, and it seems like there are two options, and SSH SOCKS proxy or OpenVPN (at least, those two are what I have found, ...
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create alias to ssh to a server and then connect to mysql
I currently have an alias to connect to a remote server:
alias server='ssh user@ec2-00-00-00-000.compute-1.amazonaws.com'
I would like to have an alias to connect to this server, and then ...
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Mac terminal keeps using SSH key with same fingerprint when running git clone
It doesn't matter what I do, create new SSH keys, add them manually to Heroku, delete all keys from Heroku and add a new one, force delete the entire ~/.ssh folder, overwrite id_rsa keys, create ...
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using history command with ssh and getting output with time stamps
Basically i want to get a record of all commands executed on my ssh server, with their times.
The codes i have tried are :
ssh user@ip 'export HISTFILE=~/.bash_history; set -o history; history'
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