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Match directive breaks SSH

On my Ubunut server 12.04 LTS machine, I try to add a user with only sFTP or FTP access. Let's call him 'Jim' for now. Jim only needs access to a directory /var/www/example.com. So far I've tried ...
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SSH into Ubuntu 12.10 from a remote computer

I am trying to login to my Ubuntu 12.10 desktop remotely. I have the SSH server installed and it works fine when I am on the same network as the Ubuntu desktop. However, I am unable to connect ...
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ssh refusing connection with message “no hostkey alg”

My SSH connections worked well, but from last week SSH from my laptop to my board refusing connection. I can make a SSH connection from the board to laptop, but not vice-versa. I tried that with my ...
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Unable to connect to my remote Ubuntu system using SSH

I want to connect to my remote PC running on Ubuntu 12.10 using SSH. But when I try ssh my_username@my_current_ip, I get this error: ssh: connect to host 117...** port 22: Connection timed out I ...
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Host alias for ssh

There are a few SSH destinations I will frequently be connecting to and I'm wondering if rather than remember the IP address I can create a host alias for them. I'd like to be able to use... ssh -p ...
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Problem Setting Up Local SSH Server

I am trying to setup one of my linux computers as an ssh server but I can't connect to it. I have openssh-server and openssh-client installed already on both computers (client and server). If I run ...
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Suddenly cannot access SSH on LAN

I had ssh running on my LAN server. Suddenly (not sure what I did), I cannot access the LAN server via ssh. When I try, it just hangs for a while with no response and finally comes out with a timed ...
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Connection timeout for ssh server

I'm trying to setup openssh-server, but I'm having some issues connecting. I changed the port to something non-standard (57757) and then set my router to forward to that port. On my LAN, I'm able to ...
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SSH google 2 step verification process over Nautilius

I do not know how to set connection for server with SSH google 2 step verification process over Nautilius? I have Ubuntu 12.10. Over terminal goes great with 2 step ver. also works great over ...
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Why do I get “connection refused” errors connecting to a server via SSH?

I've installed Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS on it with the LAMP stack. I can ping it but when I try to connect to it the server can't be found. When I try to connect with WinSCP I get the error Network error: ...
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How do I get SSH server to work with putty client?

I have an Ubuntu 12.04.01 desktop PC, 64-bit. It has openssh-server installed. When I SSH to the server from a linux box it works. But when I use PuTTY from my Windows 7 PC to connect then I just get ...
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How to monitor website stats from the terminal?

is there any way to monitoring the stats from my own website .. like example.com .. just via our terminal without installing plugins .. so we can see real time visitor and bots came and go at website ...
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SSH from external network refused

I've installed open-ssh-server on my home computer(running Lubuntu 12.04.1) in order to connect to it from school. This is how I've set up the sshd_config file: # Package generated configuration file ...
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What's the meaning of: /dev/rdisk0s1 and /dev/rdisk0s2s1?

I'm trying to use SSH to make a disk image by using DD on an iPod. And I'm using this commands: ssh root@192.168.1.100 dd if=/dev/rdisk0s1 bs=1M | dd of=iphone-root.img ssh root@192.168.1.100 dd ...
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Is it possible to use DD to obtain splited images from a hard-drive?

My piano teacher asked me to record one of his recitals with his iPod (3-4 generation, not so sure) and I did it. While trying to edit it, he accidentaly deleted it, I'm trying to recover. After some ...
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SSH Tunneling Suddenly Not Working

I have a home PC running Ubuntu 12.10. In order to make sure that my data isn't being monitored in public, I had in the past used a subscription VPN service. I decided to research alternatives and I ...
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Freezing on Logout / Disconnected SSH Connection [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: What should I do when Ubuntu freezes? I have been having my Ubuntu desktop freeze occasionally when logging out of a graphical session (using computer locally), or when ...
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Bizarre SSH Problem - It won't even start

I recently got Ubuntu 12.04 Precise, got it up and running with some MediaWiki software, static IP on the box and router and was able to access the main page even from a cell phone. Everything seemed ...
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Running Python scripts via SSH

I have two Linux machines here, one of which is running Ubuntu and the OpenSSH-Server. This machine has a simple Python file for testing which sets the wallpaper to a certain image file which is ...
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Can't ssh into my ubuntu vps

I have a vps running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and I have installed openSSH but I can't connect to it with putty. I get error saying Network error:Connection timed out. How to fix this?
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Disable automatic starting of sshd? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How do I disable SSH from starting automatically? Simple question here; what's the correct way to stop the sshd service from starting when the OS boots ? I'm not sure ...
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How can I reconnect to a ssh session after a broken pipe?

So I was running apt-get upgrade on a server when the router decided it had been too long since it last made me angry: It dropped all connection. Moral of the story is to use screen a lot when you're ...
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How could I shutdown a remote host, in my network thru ssh, with a local host?

The question is simple. What would be the script I would have to use to shut down a computer in my network thru ssh. Normaly i would go to command line and: ssh desktop delik@desktop's password: ...
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Connecting to ubuntu server via ssh externally

I have recently installed ubuntu server (12.0.4) and intend to use it primarily as a file server. I am completely new to linux so this is a pretty big learning curve. Yesterday I was able to ...
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Is there any application on Ubuntu equivalent to fedora's 'Connect To'?

On Fedora 14 I use to use an app called 'Connect To' (I think it was default app) to make SSH connections. It was GUI based SSH connection tool. Now I have migrated to Ubuntu (11.10 to be precise). ...
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How to address ssh-server with a domain name for remote access?

I am trying to set up ssh-server on my Ubuntu 12.04 VM (running in VirtualBox on Mac OS X 10.7). I have a domain name, call it foo.com, and I'd like to make ssh available via ssh to linux.foo.com. (I ...
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How do I use sudo with ssh? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How do I get permissions to edit system configuration files? OK so basically i log into Ubuntu sever 12.04 over ssh and i try to copy a file to /etc/init.d/ and it says ...
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How does SSH deal with public keys?

In SSH the client publishes his public encryption key into the server authorized_keys file for a given user. I am interested in understanding better how the public key is used context of ...
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Everytime i am trying to connect to my box using SSH, its failing not connecting

From any other PC doing SSH to my Ubuntu 11.10,is failing. My network setup: Telenet ISP (Belgium) > Fiber cable < > RJ45 cable straight > to Ubuntu PC Even the SSH is running: Other PC: ...
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Cannot ssh into Ubuntu Server by hostname

I just set up Ubuntu 12.04 Server on an old box laying around, connected to my router via ethernet. I set up openssh-server as instructed for remote access, but I cannot ssh into it from my laptop ...
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ssh: automatically accept keys

I've written this small utility script: for h in $SERVER_LIST; do ssh $h "uptime"; done When a new server is added to $SERVER_LIST, the script is stopped with: The authenticity of host ...
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Prompt not working when logged in as specific user

Hello I am running ubuntu 11.10 and access it via ssh with putty. My problem is that when I log in I get the prompt username@server.com:~$ and my arrow keys do what the y are supposed to. When I ...
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What are the common pitfalls that would stop Authorised Key SSH access, and how do I find and correct for them?

EDIT: This question was reworked to make it more useful to the community and less specific to me. Questions seem to come up reasonably often regarding ssh and problems with authorised keys access, ...
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How to give restricted access to user

I have a home PC and I created a reverse port forwarding to a server. Now I would like to go access to some people to the Home PC through this server. I would like to control the access of the user on ...
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How to solve: “Connect to host some_hostname port 22: Connection timed out”

I have two Ubuntu machines. Both have openssh-client and openssh-server installed on them. ssh-ing from machine G (fresh Ubuntu 11.10 installation) to machine K works great. But ssh-ing from machine K ...
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Server is dropping SSH connections, then not allowing me to log back on

I have an ESX box which I have loaded with two Ubuntu Server machines. During setup, I chose no additional packages to install as I just wanted a lightweight machine for testing. The first thing I ...
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SSH client not showing prompt after successful login

I'm having problems with my SSH client on Ubuntu 10.10. When I switch on my computer and open a Terminal and execute the command ssh user@host, it gives me a password prompt after which I enter the ...
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ssh permission denied in terminal but not inNautilus

I have two Ubuntu machines on the same network. I installed openssh-server and client. When I try to connect through the terminal I get the following message: "Permission denied, please try again" . ...
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passwordless ssh not working

I've tried to setup a password-less ssh b/w A to B and B to A as well. Generated the public and private key using ssh-keygen -trsa on both the machines. Used the ssh-copy-id utility to copy the ...
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SSH Connection Error: No route to host

There are three machines in this scenario: Desktop A : user@1.23.x.x Laptop A : user@1.23.y.y Machine B : user@192.168.z.z All the machines have Ubuntu 11.04 (Desktop A is a 64bit one) and have ...
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SSH problem after update

Setting up openssh-server (1:5.3p1-3ubuntu7) ... Creating SSH2 RSA key; this may take some time ... Creating SSH2 DSA key; this may take some time ... start: Job failed to start Can't initialize ssh, ...
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How do I configure a new Ubuntu installation to accept ssh connections?

I just installed Ubuntu 11.04 (in a VM). How do I set it up to allow me to ssh into it? (Right now I get "ssh: connect to host x.x.x.x port 22: Operation timed out".)
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My SSH tunnels get interrupted because the host machine falls asleep. Bug or Feature?

My gnome-power preference is set to automatically sleep after 30 minutes of inactivity. Apparently it thinks that a ssh connection is not a valid reason to keep it alive. Is this a feature or a bug? I ...
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Does ssh key need to be named id_rsa?

I have come across this problem a couple of times when creating build servers with keyed authentication. I was wondering if anyone else has experience this. I have a couple of keys for my current ...
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How to solve 'Connection refused' errors in SSH connection?

I have an Ubuntu Server 10.10 32-bit in my home. I'm making SSH connections to it from my PC via Putty. The problem is, sometimes I'm able to login seamlessly. However, sometimes it gives me an error ...
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NX/SSH remote access with Remmina

After many days and a lot of frustration, I managed to get freenx to work on my home server. I can connect to it with nomachine's linux client, but I want to use Remmina for this purpose. The problem ...
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Priority for HTTP over SSH on server

My file server on the internet runs OpenSSH, where users upload and download files using scp or WinSCP. At the same time, the server runs some web applications (http), which need higher priority. Is ...
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SSH Key problem

I want to setup my home server to use ssh keys but when I follow the tutorial on https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/C/openssh-server.html for setting up ssh keys I get this: Bad port 'umask ...