A network protocol that allows data to be exchanged using a secure channel between two networked devices
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How to access special keys using a ZAGGmate keyboard with iSSH on the iPad?
I just purchased a ZAGGmate case with Bluetooth keyboard. I immediately logged into a Linux machine via iSSH and opened up vim. I can type just fine on this little keyboard, but I am having ...
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preventing ssh command from opening xquartz on every session
Whenever I use ssh, after I type the password, xQuartz pop ups in the dock and terminal window looses focus. This happens even if there's no an X session. Why? How to prevent this behavior?
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Clearing user input - New Remote Connection Window MAC OSX
I was using Terminal.app to to use the ssh command and I opened the "New Remote Connection" window. There is this long text box under the "user" box that displays the ssh ... commands that were ...
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Change iPhone file permissions wihout jailbreak
I want to delete some apps (games) but backup their save game data.
Since there's no way to save your saved game data the only way to backup this files is using something like iFunBox and copy both ...
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Auto open 4 terminal sessions and SSH them to a given host
I'm doing Rails development on a MacBook via a VirtualBox setup that's somewhat similar to Vagrant. My inconvenience is that I like to have at least 3 terminal tabs connected to the VM via SSH (one ...
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Adding public key of iOS Prompt app to authorized_keys
How do I get the public key for Panic's Prompt app to setup auto-login to my Mac?
I have disabled the option to login with a password over ssh as this posses as a security risk.
I have tried copying ...
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Can an Open Directory (10.8) user's home directory be changed from the terminal?
I'd like to use SFTP/SSH for users (students and faculty) to manage their web content. The default home directory is "/Users//". I'd like to point them to something like "/Users//web" to block access ...
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How can I access a remote machine via SSH from behind a proxy?
I’m trying to connect to a Linux machine via SSH. The problem is that my Mac is in a different network, behind a proxy that routes HTTP and HTTPS through port 80.
How can I access the Linux machine ...
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Screen sharing MacBook-pro to iMac
I wonder if there is someway of sharing the screen on my macbook pro (which stands on the right of my iMac) to the iMac, so that I can use the same keyboard and mouse for both computers.
I believe ...
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Reverse SSH tunnel on the iPad
Is is possible to set up a reverse SSH tunnel on an iPad?
I'd like to be to do basic nmap TCP scans and use some other tools that the iPad doesn't have on remote networks. So my idea is after I've ...
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Is there a GUI SSH client for OS X?
I know that SSH from the command line is easy enough, but would like to give my students that use OS X a GUI option.
Is there a PuTTY equivalent for the Mac?
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Can't SSH access iPad
Once some time ago, I had SSH access to my iPad (3rd generation running iOS 5.1.1) and had changed the root password successfully. Now however, I can no longer access it via SSH. I have gone back ...
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Looking for a good SSH apps for iPhone
I have been using a free SSH app on my phone for a little while but stopped because using VIM mostly broke it. Now after some updates I seems to have a limited number of key strokes before it expires. ...
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Microsoft Remote Desktop through ssh-forwarded port
I have a situation where I provide access to a Windows server by forwarding the remote desktop port 3389 with ssh from my Mac to the "inside" of an otherwise inacessible network.
I can now connect ...
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How to have sshd re-read its config file (without killing ssh connections)?
How can I get the ssh server to re-read its configuration file (/etc/sshd_config), without killing existing ssh connections?
EDIT: If I run kill -HUP <SSHD_PID> I kill the connection.
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Terminal: Is there a way to be notified of activity when tailing an error log
I often ssh into a machine and tail -f it's php error log. My ideal situation would be to leave this terminal window open in the background, but when there's activity from the tail command, have the ...
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Terminal Tab Title after SSH Session
In Mac OS X (I'm on 10.6.8, though I believe other versions are the same) ssh'ing into a remote machine changes the title of the current tab in Terminal. Annoyingly, when I disconnect from the remote ...
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How to manage multiple ssh sessions with ease on Mac OS X
At my upcoming job i will handle many servers with SSH access. It will be like ~100-120 hosts, with different username on most of the hosts, and i'm pretty sure i will not remember each host domain ...
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How can I import private keys to iSSH app in iPhone?
Suppose a private key in Dropbox/server. I have tried copying it from Dropbox to iPhone's default clipboard and then to iSSH app but there is no area to paste it in iSSH, very unintuitive ...
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Firewall denies sshd-keygen-wrapper despite configuration
After upgrading to Lion, I cannot connect via SSH. I get a timeout:
$ ssh -o ConnectTimeout=5 not.my.actual.hostname
ssh: connect to host not.my.actual.hostname port 22: Operation timed out
In ...
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Enable SSH access for AD admin accounts
I have the need to configure SSH access for a AD service account on a fleet of Macs. I can't make the account a local account as the password for the service account cycles often. The end goal is to ...
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What's a good SSH tunneling client for OS X?
I've using SSH Tunnel manager to easily set up and stop port tunneling over SSH to various servers at my company. That saved me the pain of opening up a new terminal window which will hang out there ...
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How can I mount SFTP/SSH in Finder on OSX Snow Leopard?
My Question is seemingly simple. I need to mount an ssh/sftp volume and make it visible in finder to be able to use it as if it were a local volume (think smb share). I have tried everything I could ...
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autossh not behaving as expected
I am trying to use autossh, like so:
autossh -f -i id_rsa -D 8080 user@myserver.com
However, on both an PPC Tiger eMac and a Mountain Lion MacBook Pro, I just get presented with the argument and ...
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SSH request timeout every time
I am trying to access a storage space we have at work via ssh but I get a timeout every single time (Mac OS 10.7.5 - Terminal).
I checked firewalls, settings, even turned off Little Snitch, and port ...
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SSH Key Error, sudo works fine
When I try to ssh (using ssh user@server.com) into my server at home from either the local network or from outside, I get the following error:
But if I use sudo ssh user@server.com, it works with no ...
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SSH command has no -Z option - Obfuscated ssh client
I am working on a project remotely, and I have MACOSX 10.7.4 installed. The server is Ubuntu linux based, and I use "ssh" to access it. Recently the openSSH server in the remote server being secured ...
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ssh fails: image not found [preauth]
When I try to SSH to my computer, ssh fails with this error:
MothershipKuyan:~ kuyan$ ssh kuyan@localhost
Connection closed by ::1
This also happens when I attempt to SSH to my user from another ...
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SSH connection hangs out at SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT recieved
I tried to connect to a server with ssh, but it failed. I tried UseDNS no, update OpenSSH with MacPorts. But it didn't work.
Using user@ip -v I get the following output
OpenSSH_5.9p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8r ...
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How can I gain screen share/ssh access to a G5 connected by ethernet to a Mac Mini on my wireless Airport Extreme Network from my MacBook Pro?
Ok, so the scenario is this:
I have a G5 Quad (running Leopard) with no wireless card.
The G5 is connected by ethernet to a Mac-Mini (running Lion), which is picking up my AirPort Extreme network ...
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How to access my .ssh folder for Transmit or Cyberduck?
I"m trying to connect to my linux server which uses public key authentication. By default, the .ssh folder is hidden on my mac (which I can access via the terminal). However, when I try to setup a ...
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Disable password authentication on SSH server on OS X Server 10.8
I want to disable the password authentication of the SSH server on my OS X Server. this should be done in /etc/sshd_config, right? But I’m not sure which setting I should change…
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Why does Mountain Lion ask me for my password when trying to SSH even though I have setup public/private keys?
On Mac OS X Mountain Lion (10.8) I have setup public/private keys for passwordless SSH to another Mountain Lion machine but when I try to SSH to the other machine it still asks for my password. I have ...
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How to setup a ssh tunnel that works with P2P and filtered http from OS X to a linux machine over SSH?
I do have a linux machine (Ubuntu) which has no filters and a client machine which is behind a firewall that have even web traffic filtering.
I can properly establish SSH connections from the client ...
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How do I enable SSH server on startup through Terminal?
Curious as to how I can enable the sshd to start on startup solely using terminal. The GUI is great and everything but it doesn't go well with my bash scripts.
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Connecting to a remote machine with a public key using Fugu
How do I connect to a remote server with a public key using Fugu? I'm using Amazon EC2, so I have .pem public key, but I'm totally new to Fugu and I can't see any form or input for the public key. In ...
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How do I enable a standard account to SSH in?
I have SSH working fine on my Mac. I created a new "standard" account but I can't ssh in with it? Why is this and how do I remedy it?
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Apple Reverse SSH Tunnelling Issue
I've been trying to setup reverse SSH tunnelling from outside my network to home but I've beet getting no-where. My setup is all Apple: two Macs behind an Airport Extreme, one at x.x.x.20 listening on ...
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SSH and Transmit
So jailbroke the ipad successfully and tried to ssh into it using terminal and it works. I then tried to change the root and mobile user passwords which also went smoothly. Now when i try to SFTP it ...
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ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed
In university I normally SSH into the CS server. However today I keep getting the following error: ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host. SSHing with -v flags gives me the ...
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How to change Security Policy for a non-app program (ssh)?
GateKeeper seems to have started blocking aspects of ssh... Can I edit the System Policy database (/var/db/SystemPolicy) to allow ssh to run properly?
This started happening (a few days) after I ...
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How to fix a Lion upgrade that killed SSH keys?
I just upgraded to Lion and find now that my ssh keys are not working properly when trying to log into various servers via SSH.
I've checked permissions on the ~/.ssh directory and the ...
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Rename terminal tabs, persist while in SSH
I'm aware Cmd-I includes options to rename a tab. However while I'm ssh'ed into another machine (more precisely: my computer -> ssh -> ssh -> ssh) every time I run a persistent command, in this case ...
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Monkeysphere on OS X?
Today I found Monkeysphere: http://superuser.com/questions/378853/how-to-use-gpg-and-ssh-together
For me it'd be a nice way to leverage the web of trust of GPG to have friends authenticate with my ...
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How to add a script that types in the password for my vps through applescript
I made a script recently and have turned it into an app, it basicly logs me into my vps via ssh but I don't know how to tell it how to type in my password for me, heres the code
tell application ...
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ssh -A doesn't properly enable forwarding of authentication agent connection
I love ssh -A, which allows me to use my local ssh key when establishing a connection from a remote server. For example, I ssh -A host1.example.com and then from there I can ssh host2.example.com (or ...
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Mounting a remote SCP or SFTP share on Mac
I use Fuse4X and ForkLift to mount a remote directory (a dev server). I use PHPStorm to open projects and source (/Volumes/dev/project_path), but sometimes it happens that Forklift freezes (in ...
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ECDSA ssh key on 10.8.2
I used ssh-keygen -t ecdsa to generate an ECDSA key, but I got the error
unknown key type ecdsa.
man ssh-keygen says:
-t type
Specifies the type of key to create. The possible values are ...
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Terminal Actived Push Notification Utility for OS X and iOS?
I am basically wondering if there is any tool(s) that can generate a push notifications on OS X and/or iOS from terminal entries. Idea here is you could connect via SSH and make a custom push ...
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How Do I Access/Change OSX System Preferences Using SSH?
I currently have SSH enabled on my 2011 Mac Mini Lion Server. I want to be able to use a VNC Viewer to connect to it as well from my Windows 7 client. I've downloaded the RealVNC VNC Viewer and ...
