Public key authentication is a way to authenticate to a remote computer and enable encryption of the connection. This is generally more secure than an authentication with a password.
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ssh public key authentication not working
I had my keys set up so I can ssh between machines without having to enter a password and everything was working for a while but then, all of a sudden, I'm being prompted for a password on some ...
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My cloud server came with PermitRootLogin without-password, is it normal?
I was just wondering if it is normal that in the Ubuntu 14 provided by my cloud hosting company,there is this configuration in the file /etc/ssh/sshd_config :
PermitRootLogin without-password
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SSH: “Server refused our key” with no reason
I was trying to set up a simple backup script to run automatically that would copy a file from a Windows machine to a Linux one through SSH.
As a lot of simple online tutorials suggest I used pscp ...
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How does ssh server defines which key to use first having more than 1?
I have just found out that on my Ubuntu machine I have more public keys to serve in /etc/ssh directory:
$ ll /etc/ssh
total 296K
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 237K lip 3 2013 moduli
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root ...
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SSH Public Key authentication - works only after a physical login
I am trying to connect via SSH to my ubuntu server with public key authentication.
For some reasons I get an "Permission denied (publickey)." on the client, whenever I execute
ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa ...
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Why can't I use public/private key authentication with ssh on Arch Linux?
I have the following setup on an Ubuntu machine:
~/dotfiles/authorized_keys2
~/.ssh/authorized_keys2 -> /home/wayne/dotfiles/authorized_keys2
I had the same setup on my Arch machine, but when I ...
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SSH: public key authentication without authorized_keys file
I have a lot of ssh public key logins on a Linux server, e.g.:
Jul 25 11:41:01 host sshd[24594]: Accepted publickey for root from xxx.xxx.xx.xx port 33374 ssh2
This is strange for me since there's ...
