Questions tagged [ssh-agent]

Question 1

(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: ...

Question 2

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 ...

Question 3

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 ...

Question 4

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,...

Question 5

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 ...

Question 6

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 ...

Question 7

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:...

Question 8

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 ...

Question 9

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 ...

Question 10

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 ...

Question 11

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 ...

Question 12

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 ...

Question 13

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/...

Question 14

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: ...

Question 15

I can add a passwordless id_ed25519 file locally using ssh-add -k, but not on my remote server. Locally: ☁ ~ ssh-add -l The agent has no identities. ☁ ~ ssh-add -k ~/.ssh/id_ed25519 Identity added:...

Question 16

I am trying to connect to github over ssh on my remote server (Running Ubuntu 22.04). On my local computer (Running Win 10), I have ~/.ssh/config file with the following: Host remote HostName ...

Question 17

I use my yubikey to authenticate against remote hosts with ssh. This works (with the same keys) on Linux, and it fails on Windows, with git-bash. all this is on windows 10, and this is OpenSSH_9.0p1, ...

Question 18

I have an ecdsa-sk keypair that I generated and added to my github account (tied to a yubikey). If I try any connection using that key, such as git push, I get: sign_and_send_pubkey: signing failed ...

Question 19

Some services like github and gitlab distinguish between users based on the SSH identity sent. One way to do this is to have different host aliases in ~/.ssh/config: Host user1-github HostName github....

Question 20

I have a GCP VM on which is installed a Docker with Drupal. e2-medium with SSD 10Go After increasing the disk size to 20GB, I can no longer access the VM in SSH. My VM was failing to boot because of a ...

Question 21

I have a GitLab server configured on a non-standard port. I am using ssh protocol to clone and push, and I have configured the correct port entry in the .config file of ssh. Now, I need to connect to ...

Question 22

Is there any way to pass a password using .ssh/config? I'm trying to set up a way to login to a server under a specific user and then switch automatically to root when I connect (need to input ...

Question 23

How can I simplify this? Perhaps using agent forwarding? I have an SSH jump host with 2FA via TOTP x2 and a machine which uses 2FA as well(jump host and machine): ssh [email protected] -L 22222:...

Question 24

When using password-secured SSH keys I can use ssh-add to preemptively unlock a key before it needs to be used and have it cached in ssh-agent for future use. What is a GPG equivalent of ssh-add? I ...

Question 25

It's been a while since I've done this and configured ssh keys. I generated an ssh key with a different file name than id_rsa I have a DigitalOcean Droplet where I placed a named ssh key pair on ...

Question 26

I have a bash script #!/bin/bash scp -r some_directory remote_host:~ which I made executable with chmod u+x. The remote_host has been defined in my .ssh/config as follows: Host remote_host HostName ...

Question 27

I've got a slightly unusual use-case... I'm using SSH via certificates, (where the authentication mechanism isn't just a signature from a private key, but also presentation of a signed cert). I have ...

Question 28

I have always wondered why such a basic feature (loading ssh keys for persistent usage) requires a clunky command to execute in the background of a cmdline. Why isn't ssh-agent a service (for example) ...

Question 29

I'm using the Visual Studio Code Remote - SSH extension on a Windows 10 laptop to access a bunch of Linux development servers. I followed these instructions to set up the Windows built-in ssh-agent ...

Question 30

I use ProxyCommand with the intention of avoiding ssh agent forwarding. Today I noticed that Gnome was starting ssh-agent, which I'm trying to avoid using so I disabled it. I'd like to not have the ...

Question 31

Windows 10 20H2, build 19042.685 I'm trying to use the SSH agent in the built-in OpenSSH client on Windows 10. The agent is running: C:\Users\Daniel> Get-Service | ?{$_.Name -like '*ssh-agent*'} ...

Question 32

How can I, as a user logged in to a remote server via ssh, check if ssh-agent forwarding is permitted on that server? Restrictions: The tool 'sshd_config' either doesn't exist on this system, or I ...

Question 33

I have an Ansible server with 3 ubuntu servers (hosts). So i want to be able to logon to those servers by typing in the SSH key password once. I have edited my .bashrc with an alias. alias ssha='eval $...

Question 34

If I SSH to targethost via jumphost with agent forwarding enabled, will jumphost have access to my SSH key agent? ssh -A -J user1@jumphost user2@targethost Is this still secure, if I don't fully ...

Question 35

I am having this weird issue with a server whenever I try to open htop over ssh it hangs, ls works but ls -l hangs after couple of line if I execute history it hangs after printing 50+ line. But mosh ...

Question 36

I have a remote CentOS server, lets pretend it's called hostname.com hostname.com has several user accounts, and I want to ssh into this server as any one of these users (using ssh keys rather than ...

Question 37

I am new to this community , I am working on my iot project in which my microcontroller is working as a server, taking data and executing request. My client is end device (mobile,tablet) and I am ...

Question 38

I have a bunch of ssh keys loaded semi-permanently into ssh-agent. ssh-add -L lists 6 keys. I also have other keys which are stored separately; let's say, on a USB stick. I exactly don't want to keep ...

Question 39

I seem to be having a problem where Ansible isn't using my SSH agent cache. I've run the following: eval `ssh-agent` ssh-add /tmp/key Then I successfully log into one of the hosts from my inventory ...

Question 40

I created Virtual machine (VM) instance in the GCP but unable to connect with WinSCP from the windows machine. I created on VM instance in the GCP then generated pub key by using command ssh-keygen ...

Question 41

From PC1, I SSH into SERVER1 where I have a bash script, that will SSH & auth to SERVER2 using an SSH-key that's password-protected. Everything works fine when I manually execute my script, using ...

Question 42

At my institute we have a cluster that runs LSF. Via this cluster, I want to connect to other computers/servers using Agent Forwarding. This works fine when I am on the login node, however when I am ...

Question 43

I've setup OpenSSH following the 2019 Update of this question including setting GIT_SSH=C:\Windows\System32\OpenSSH\ssh.exe. Which works great, except when using when using git from git bash I get ...

Question 44

Several users seem to have problems with the usage of ssh-agent in their login environment. sri for instance has 1295 of them running on login02. And many other users are having same issue. I am ...

Question 45

I have TeamCity agents installed on a CentOS 7.3 server, and am trying to use the "SSH agent" build feature for a script that uses scp. However, it always fails due to a TimeoutException: [12:39:32] ...

Question 46

I'm trying to automate the deployment of an SVN repository (with a web app) over multiple production servers, without installing any private key on the servers. The SVN server is hosted on srv3, and ...

Question 47

Suppose I've got a server foo.com which only allows keyboard-interactive authentication, and that I can't change this. This means I can do, sshpass -p PASSWORD ssh foo.com but I can't create public/...

Question 48

I have this running on gitlab ci, and it works for regular ssh (copied from the gitlab ci docs): eval $(ssh-agent -s) ssh-add <(echo "$SSH_PRIVATE_KEY") mkdir -p ~/.ssh echo -e "Host *\n\...

Question 49

I'm trying to set up backing up some folder from one server (target server) to another (backup server) using rsync. I also need to call rsync from backup server so it's easier to maintain backup ...

Question 50

In my ssh_config, I have configured SSH to use a specific key when connecting to a host. I want SSH to try only this key, not any other key it may find (in ssh agent or some other location), so I ...