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Secure shell protocol connection
Okay so my client is a Macbook air connecting to a server Macbook Pro and when I type
ssh [email protected]
into Terminal it does not send back any output. After a while it sends this back....
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Forwarding remote port 80 to OSX Localhost port
I've created SSH tunnels in the past, but I'm having trouble on OSX. I'm looking to take a website's port 80, and direct it to my localhost:8080 (or whatever port, really). When I run this command
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Ping hostname works but ssh does not for local machine
This is an interesting one.
What is our hostname and ip ?
echo $hostname $(ipaddr)
TCA0080ALKVTAGB xx.xx.242.47
ping works:
$ping $(hostname)
PING TCA0080ALKVTAGB (xx.xxx.242.47): 56 data bytes
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Send a message from a mac to a pc over the local network
So this one's been annoying me for some time now. I have a PC (windows 10) and the rest of my family has macs (ranging from Yosemite to el capitan). We're often in different rooms wearing headphones ...
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What's wrong with my OpenSSH Include directive?
Recently OpenSSH on macOS Sierra was upgraded to 7.3p1 which means that the Include config directive is available, hurray!
However I'm having problems actually using it.
I have the following ~/.ssh/...
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Networking issue on Macosx: Create a network of 2 linux computers and a Mac
I am trying to setup a network as displayed in the picture 1 (I forgot to mention that the netmask on all devices is set to 255.255.255.0).
I want to ssh to my board (which is running linux) using my ...
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X11 character translation, dollar sign becomes 4
From my MacOSX system I am connecting to a remote server using "ssh my remote.server.machine -X", and on the server I start a program that in turn is opening a xterm window for itself. In this process,...
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SSH from Mac to Vagrant machine
I am trying to connect with SSH from my MacBook to a Vagrant machine.
vagrant ssh works fine, but I'm wondering why it is failing when I use ssh from the Mac Terminal.
Here is the error it throws:
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Home router blocking outbound SSH
TL;DR I can't SSH to customer's server on customer's VPN from my home but I can from the office.
I'm using MacOS and when I'm in the office I can:
Start a vagrant box on my computer.
Use VPNC to ...
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How to reload the ssh config file in Mac OS X via terminal
When I update my ssh config file so I can switch my current github account, the changes wont work properly unless I restart iTerm. I'm working on a script to automate the github account switch and I'd ...
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Passwordless ssh not working even though normal steps taken
Let's look at the "normal" steps to get passwordless ssh to work:
Create an ssh key id_rsa, add it to ~/.ssh dir and do chmod 0600 on it.
Add the id_rsa.pub to the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys. ensure that ...
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ssh: Could not resolve hostname - until restart
Just as in this question I have two macs on my home wifi network. Usually, I am able to use ssh to connect from one to the other, using either of:
ssh username@mac-name
ssh username@ip-address
...
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ssh hangs on osx client after Entering interactive session
I am trying to connect to a remote server (remote server running linux, local client running osx) through ssh, but the connection hangs after Entering interactive session.
I can sftp remote ...
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Can't access Linux server via SSH
I have a MacBook Air, version 10.12.1 (Sierra).
I have been thus far with Windows for the better part of the last 20 years and few days ago I switched to Mac for the first time.
I have a shared ...
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rsync doesn't work, but ssh and scp do
I am trying to copy files from a remote server (linux) to my client (osx) using
rsync -avz remote:/path/to/file .
but the connection hangs and the transfer is never completed. Instead, I can ...
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How to get RSA Public Key and Private Key and get the modulus and exponent in plain text?
A requirement needs me to
"Create or retrieve user’s RSA-OAEP key. There should be one
public/private key pair for each user for a device"
and send it to the server in this form:
{"modulus":"...
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Using terminal on Mac OS X to connect to Windows Machine
've done some research on google and it seems I might be asking the wrong question that would yield minor results. So I hope someone could shed some light on my confusion.
Ideally, I connect using ...
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Why/how does SSH fail to authenticate if the *client* machine has a bogus pubkey?
On clienthost I have a pub:priv keypair stored as ~/.ssh/foo and ~/.ssh/foo.pub, respectively.
On remotehost I have the pubkey correctly extant in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys such that I can login using -i ...
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FileZilla SFTP connection need to change user account
I'm trying to connect to a SFTP server using FileZilla on Mac, on my personal default account, I'm keep getting this authentication failed error, even though all my details are correct.
But when I ...
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How does SFTP transfer files when SCP cannot? [duplicate]
While at work, I am restricted from using scp to copy files from a remote server to my machine and when I try, the operation always times out. However, when using an FTP client that supportssftp, the ...
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How to connect a linux pc (Ubuntu) to a Mac OSX that run only in single user mode terminal
First time posting here, so be kind with me. This is a problem I'm facing. A Mac on OSX (10.7.x) is dead on graphic card,so is bootable only in single mode from terminal. I want to get data from disk, ...
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packet_write_wait: Broken Pipe error on MacOS Sierra SSH
I keep getting a packet_write_wait: Broken Pipe error on my EC2 SSH connections after a period of inactivity.
I've tried modifying the ServerAliveInterval & ClientAliveInterval settings with ...
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ssh-agent service stop starting at login on Mac OS 10.11
I'm currently facing a little issue about the ssh-agent service. I rebooted my computer today after removing a Boot Camp partition. Since then, ssh-agent no longer starts automatically at login.
I ...
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torsocks ssh does not work on Mac Sierra
I am trying to make an anonymous connection via ssh to a remote server using torsocks on my Macbook pro running Sierra, but it does not work.
I tried:
torsocks ssh root@THEIP
AND
ssh -L 9050:127.0....
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OSX SSH to localhost keeps losing my AllowUsers setting
I'm on Mac OSX 10.11.6 (El Capitan) and I'm using the built-in SSH server (enabled via System Preferences -> Sharing -> Remote Login). I have selected "Only these users" for "Allow access for:" and ...
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install paramiko on my Mac OS X 10.11
I tried to install paramiko on my Mac OS X 10.11
sudo pip install paramiko
Password:*******
then I got
The directory '/Users/bheng/Library/Caches/pip/http' or its parent directory is not owned by ...
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macOS Sierra - error: The specified item could not be found in the keychain - within ssh
When I try to run codesign --force --deep-verify --verbose --sign "CERT-NAME" ... over SSH I always get an error: The specified item could not be found in the keychain.
But when I run the same ...
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macOS keeps asking my ssh passphrase since I updated to Sierra
It used to remember the passphrase, but now it's asking it to me each time.
I've read that I need to regenerate the public key with this command, which I did:
ssh-keygen -y -f id_rsa > id_rsa.pub
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Determine if process started via SSH
I'm working on a mac and my scripts are interacting with the keychain (codesigning, etc...). As of El Capitan, interacting with the keychain is very different depending whether a process is started ...
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Can't change SSH_AUTH_SOCK with launchctl setenv
I want to set the value of SSH_AUTH_SOCK to a different location on an OSX El Capitan system. I attempted to do so by executing the following command:
$ launchctl setenv SSH_AUTH_SOCK ~/.gnupg/S.gpg-...
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SSH Auth from Ubuntu VM running on Mac in VMWare Fusion
I'm trying out a new 2FA product and it can protect SSH logins with a second auth scheme like SMS or push to a mobile phone. I port mapped 443 to the inside address of the MacBook Pro (10.x.x.x) thru ...
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ssh'ing into mac, home and end insert a tilde
When I ssh into my Mac using PuTTY from Windows, and I try to move to the beginning or end of a line by pressing Home or End, it inserts a Tilde (~) character under the cursor instead. This is highly ...
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Not able to ssh into ubuntu virtualbox vm from mac host
I have an ubuntu VirtualBox VM running on MacOS as host.
I have set up as a host-only network called vboxnet0, it is manually configured:
ip 192.168.0.15
netmask 255.255.255.0
not using dhcp
The VM ...
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Delete and Arrow Keys not working when SSH into a Windows Box from a Mac…Help please
I've tried to use them with combinations of command control and alt, but nothing seems to work. It would be a total hit on my productivity that I can't delete or use navigation in ssh...I didn't ...
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How to disable Remote Management and Screen Sharing Ports in OS X El Capitan Application Firewall?
I have purchased an OS X 10.11 VPS. I would like to lock down the box to only allow port 22 SSH through the firewall. So I turned on the application firewall under System Preferences -> Security and ...
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OSX - ssh keeps failing for different reasons
I am using ssh to connect to my digitalocean droplets normally. Recently, all of them stop working suddenly and I can't access them but they highlight different reasons.
Connection closed
Operation ...
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Fix Dropbox sync remotely
I'm having intermittent trouble getting Dropbox to sync on a remote machine. I don't know what the cause is, but it will sync fine for months then stop. I'm trying to debug this over SSH on OSX (...
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sftp onto mac local machine from remote server
Posted this on SO but that was deemed off topic so re-posting it here.
I am trying to download a dataset from a private remote server through sftp onto my local macbook pro machine. I was informed by ...
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How to set system-wide umask for SSH connections to an OSX machine
I would like to set the default umask of an OSX machine to 0002. I can get this to work for graphical applications using:
$ sudo launchctl config user umask 0002
$ sudo reboot
However, this doesn't ...
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Can’t seem to SSH from an iPhone to Mac
I’ve tried using several iPhone apps to connect to my Mac (a 2012 Retina MacBook Pro running OS X El Capitan) via SSH, but it never seems to work.
I have remote login turned on and know my Mac’s IP ...
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Problems connecting to my Mac via SSH
I have Mac with remote access enabled. I can easily connect to it via SSH within local network. I have configured 22 port forwarding on my router. But I can't connect to my Mac via SSH by using router'...
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Setting explicit command to run SFTP server in FileZilla client (Mac OS)
Basically what I am looking forward is the same functionality on Mac OS as the WinSCP screenshot below
I have SSH tunnel application to establish tunnel with the server and using the FileZilla for ...
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mac to mac vnc through ssh for dummies. Is my connection encrypted?
I am finding online tutorials very challenging and I feel compelled to ask a question that I'm sure is common: How do I control the screen of a remote mac on a (remote) home network, where all info ...
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SSH error “Connection reset by peer” - no obvious cause
I'm trying to SSH a shared host server and everything has been working fine for over a year, but now without explanation whenever I try to connect to it I get:
ssh_exchange_identification: read: ...
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Getting my private key from my OpenShift account
I am a relatively new user to OpenShift. I have some experience with git and I was using it perfectly on my old Mac. The Mac broke down and had to recycle the parts to a store that recycles computer ...
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How can OS X cron use existing ssh-agent without environment?
I've looked all over these forums, and either haven't found an answer to this, or more frequently, the question is different.
Client is OS X El Capitan. I am logged in, and my ssh key (with ...
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SSH remote problems - ongoing issue: Besides ssh not running on the Linux host or firewall running on that host, what other issues could it be?
Regarding the firewall:
Linux Mint uses UFW by default. I disabled it with sudo ufw disable.
Regarding the SSH Server service not running:
I started it after I got a "Connection refused", leading ...
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How could I oversee remotely a Linux computer with my MacBook Pro using SSH?
I equipped Linux Mint on every computer that my coworkers have for all those times that I would like to jab them in the kisser, but I need to supervise their computers for when my boss yells and needs ...
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SSH Client Closes Connection
I'm attempting to establish 2-way SSH communication between a MacBook (192.168.1.3) running OS X 10.9.5 and a desktop computer (192.168.1.2) running Korora 23 (basically Fedora 23 with additional ...
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Stopping terminal tab update on ssh
I understand that this is a possible duplicate question. However, I could not find any satisfying answer and so I am asking this question yet again.
When I SSH into a remote machine, I do not want ...
