Questions tagged [ssh-agent]
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Allowing SSH To use ssh-agent in bash script
I am working on recon for a set of systems my company is taking over and they use a different authentication method than we do. Specifically we use AD auth and a jump server to access systems where they use a mix of Keys, passphrases and others for…
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How to use socket file to access server if SSH Agent forwarding is enabled
I have bastion host. I connect to the bastion host using username/password. And I have private key for destination Server. Flow:
Local Machine -> Bastion -> Destination
I know that It's dangerous to use Agent forwarding because someone may read my…
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How to configure SSH agent to set user for second hop?
Is it possible to connect to a web server and then connect to a git server using SSH agent if the second hop needs a different user?
It works if I pass in the user name explicitly.
$ ssh web.example.com
# connects
> ssh -T…
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Using virt-manager with seahorse instead of ssh-askpass?
On my Arch Linux virt-manager can not connect remote ssh and tells about installing ssh-askpass. As I wan't to use the gnome default seahorse, I was looking for a solution which I didn't find on the web.
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ssh, agent forwarding stops working after a few days ...
I've been facing an interesting issue for a few weeks now. Part of our fleet is only reachable via a jump-host.
In the past I had no issues w/ logging into the jump-host from my workstation using ssh -A and maintain a session for extended periods…
tink
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shell script for running ssh-agent
Good day,
I have read through the similar topics all day long but unfortunately could not find the answer suitable to my situation. So here is what I'm trying to do. I have the shell script with quite a few functions and one of the function supposes…
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ssh: Could not resolve hostname add: Name or service not known
I created non-sudo user and I can't add ssh key while logined with it:
% ssh -vvv add ~/.ssh/mykey
OpenSSH_6.6.1, OpenSSL 1.0.1f 6 Jan 2014
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 19: Applying…
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ssh ForwardAgent, "Could not open a connection to your authentication agent."
I have ForwardAgent yes for a few hosts. One of them started failing recently and I can't find the reason.
when I ssh to all hosts and execute ssh-add -l i can see one key just fine. If i ssh to that one host, i get "Could not open a connection to…
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Ansible, Vagrant, sudo and ssh-agent
So I've seen this question and added the Defaults env_keep+=SSH_AUTH_SOCK into my /etc/sudoers file but I am still unable to clone from github on my Vagrant box using sudo: true and sudo_user: in my ansible playbook. I'd like to clone the…
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How to do SSH authentication and CVS update automatically from cron job?
I call a script from cron job. In the script it needs to run CVS commands to update from a remote repository. To do that, it needs to SSH authenticate.
I put the following code in the script
...
ROOTPATH="/Users/qazwsx/project/"
cd…
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ssh-agent not caching one key, but caches another
I'm on Mac OS X 10.9.5 and ssh agent is working just fine for two of my keys (include the main one, ~/.ssh/id_rsa). However, for my AWS key, it asks me for the passphase every time. I'm unsure why. I'd like for it to cache the AWS key until…
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Is my private key safe if I use authenticaiton agent forwarding with the ssh -A option?
I love the option to connect to servers via SSH with the -A option, so I can use my private keys on the server.
This lets me update git/svn repositories and connect to other servers without the need of uploading the private key to the…
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Enable root password on remote server
I'm playing around with ssh-with-rsa-key authorization instead of password authorization and because I'm not really clever I've locked password authorization for root(passwd -l root) on remote server.
Also I've deleted my rsa key from local computer…
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seamless ssh with condition
I am looking for a way of seamless ssh in a way that when user does ssh through shell, it will be disallowed (or normal rules apply) but if a process (non-interactive) tries to ssh with the same user should be allowed without password. May be some…
ashji
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Weird DNS bug - external server resolves to internal IP
I have a server that is hosted by my university. I have root access, but no control over network setup, firewall, etc. This server's DNS resolves to an internal IP here on campus (10.x.x.x), and an external IP outside campus.
I also have a few…
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