SSH is a protocol for running commands on a remote computer. Implementations Dropbear is a lightweight implementation of SSH targeted at embedded devices. OpenSSH, developed by the OpenBSD project, is by far the most common implementation of SSH, both server-side and client-side, in the unix ...
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How do I execute a remote shell script over SSH and be prompted for passwords by commands that require it in that script?
I want to do something like this
ssh [email protected] ./remote_script.sh
Contents of remote_script.sh
#!/bin/bash
hg pull
This example is much simpler than what I am actually doing. I know ...
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How to copy with SCP between two servers using key auth?
I can log in via SSH using key authentication to SERVER1 and SERVER2. However, I can't copy files between the two servers. Why? How can I copy between them? (the data that I have to copy is bigger ...
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SSH into Ubuntu VM remotely
I don't have much Linux or networking experience, but I'm trying to SSH into an Ubuntu virtual machine from outside of my home network. The Ubuntu virtual machine (running inside VirtualBox) is ...
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Xdebug not working over a reverse shell
I've opened a reverse shell to my remote server to tunnel port 9000 to my local machine xdebug client but it doesn't work. The reverse shell seems to work because I can access my remote machine but ...
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How to run mutt via ssh without going through an interactive shell
Mutt depends on curses according to this here, my discussion with Michael:
@hhh: ssh [email protected] mutt <--- what is wrong here? trying to run mutt there...
@MichaelMrozek: mutt uses curses, ...
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Can a linux user change their password without knowing the current password?
I'm setting up a few ubuntu boxes, and using opscode's chef as a configuration tool. It would be fairly easy to install public keys for each user on each of these servers, and disable password ...
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How does “Remote tab title format” in Konsole work?
Some terminal programs, in particular Konsole supports "Remote title format" which allows you to specify title for remote tabs which includes placeholders like remote host. How does this work? Where ...
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Allowing an entire subnet on Ubuntu server 11.10
I am trying to allow all hosts in my subnet to connect to a server I have running in VirtualBox with ssh. I have tried several different methods so far, none of which have made any progress. What I ...
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how to run shell on a remote server with root priviledge
I want to execute a shell script on a remote server, and the script should be run by root with no password required (or use sudo in the script).
Can anyone give me some suggestions?
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Unable to use -o allow_other with sshfs (option enabled in fuse.conf)
I have the following on my /etc/fuse.conf file:
# Set the maximum number of FUSE mounts allowed to non-root users.
# The default is 1000. ...
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SSH and home directory permissions
It took me hours to solve this SSH problem with one of my class accounts on my school's servers.
I couldn't ssh into one particular class account without entering my password, while passwordless ...
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Why is this scp command creating a directory one level up?
I am trying to copy a file from one machine to another machine via ssh. Both machines are Ubuntu servers. Both machines have exchaged keys so that they can log into each other without passwords.
The ...
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How to completely hide stuff from a user?
I want to let some of my friends access my computer by making them user accounts. They will mostly access my computer by sftp and ssh, but they could also sometimes access it at my home. However I ...
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How to open a port early in boot process to unlock LUKS via SSH
I have a fully encrypted server running Debian 6 and have set up dropbear and busybox to unlock the LUKS container via SSH (as described in this tutorial and in this U&L answer).
Unfortunately, ...
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Why is it possible to leave CHROOT with this config?
I'm trying to create the user lenny, that has read and write permissions in the folder /home/lenny/ and has no shell but only access via SFTP. I'm doing the following:
useradd lenny
mkdir /home/lenny
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