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Ubuntu 22.04 SSH the RSA key isn't working since upgrading from 20.04
Cause
The RSA SHA-1 hash algorithm is being quickly deprecated across operating systems and SSH clients because of various security vulnerabilities, with many of these technologies now outright ...
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SSH without password does not work after upgrading from 18.04 to 22.04
The RSA SHA-1 hash algorithm is being quickly deprecated. There is a workaround for re-enabling RSA at SSH-RSA key rejected with message "no mutual signature algorithm" .
Add the following ...
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How can I perform a secure automatic file transfer between two servers?
You can't hide anything on the system from someone who have root access. Even you are using encrypted home directory while you are logged-in it is decrypted and the root user can access the data.
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Ubuntu 22.04 SSH the RSA key isn't working since upgrading from 20.04
When I need to re-enable a deprecated method in order to connect to a server I can't upgrade (e.g. an embedded legacy device such as an old router) I rather like doing this on a per-device basis ...
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SSH default port not changing (Ubuntu 22.10)
SSHd now uses socket-based activation Ubuntu 22.10 or later.
Read more about this change being discussed here.
TLDR: The /etc/ssh/sshd_config are unused, now that I read the comments in full I found:
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ssh: challengeresponseauthentication in 22.04 Ubuntu
Seems like the ChallengeResponseAuthentication option was replaced by KbdInteractiveAuthentication in /etc/ssh/sshd_config.
I just enabled 2FA with pam_google_authenticator.so as described in the ...
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For new AWS instance, "Using username "ubuntu". Server refused our key."
Try updating putty to the latest version i was using an older version updated it to 0.76 and it worked flawlessly
https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
hope this helps
Eric adds:
For ...
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scp: How to change ownership of folder and files while transferring files
scp doesn't have an option for changing ownership on-the-fly but, rsync does ... it has -og --chown=user:group ... So, you can do something like:
rsync -og --chown=srv2 /var/www/vhosts/srv1.com/...
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ssh known_hosts file not using hostnames anymore
As others have commented, HashKnownHosts yes is causing the hostname to not autocomplete due to it being hashed. Add that to a "global" section by using Host * to match all hosts.
Host *
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How can I perform a secure automatic file transfer between two servers?
Use rsync in a cronjob, as usual.
On the rsync client, users with "sudo" privilege will be able to see the username and password needed to access the specific folders shared by the rsync ...
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Block all incoming requests but local network
I would suggest you adjust your approach from single-port-focus to a full 'defense' posture: Whitelist IPs, reject all other connection attempts. This applies for most all ports on your environment - ...
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SSH without password does not work after upgrading from 18.04 to 22.04
You can add the following line to /etc/ssh/ssh_config if you want the add this config for all users or to ~/.ssh/config if you want to add this to your own user.
HostKeyAlgorithms +ssh-rsa
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Increase security for ssh login via public / private key: use port forwarding in router or in server?
It (mostly) does not matter
If you just want to reduce the number of login attempts in the server's system log, either approach is fine.
To be specific here are the two approaches:
You can have the ...
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php 7.4, ssh_connect(), "Unable to exchange encryption keys" only when connecting to ubuntu 22.04 machines
AH HA!!!!!!
I found the solution. The issue is the key exchange process of "ssh-rsa" is not accepted on Ubuntu 22.04 systems. I switched to using "ecdsa-sha2-nistp256" and it works!...
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stderr: No ECDSA host key is known for github.com and you have requested strict checking
... and you have requested strict checking.
You can check the Jenkins/Git-Host-Key-Verification setting under Global Security...
Obviously you can workaround it by selecting No verification which is ...
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How to copy files from an ssh machine to my local pc?
Basic sftp tutorial
Use the command:
sftp username@institution
This will take you to the sftp prompt like:
Connected to institution.
sftp>
Now type help like this:
sftp> help
This will show ...
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How can I perform a secure automatic file transfer between two servers?
Just send the file to serverA instead of having a user on serverA copy it from serverB. If you want to copy foo.txt from serverB to serverA, you can do it in two basic ways:
Run a command on serverA ...
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How effective is Deja Dup backups?
No, 1st off: permission are likely skewered: you need to probably make sure user id, and group id are identical. Also: it is not the intended usage for deja-dup. Clonezilla is not a backup tool and as ...
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Putty 0.76 does not work on Ubuntu 22.04 unless with Sudo
It seems the default font for PuTTY 0.76 in Ubuntu 22.04 is "Server:Fixed".
Not sure what that is, but I browsed the available fonts in PuTTY, and chose one to my liking.
Now PuTTY is ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 problem with ssh
Since I can't comment, I'll put it as an answer. I had the same problem, after hours of searching found something that fixed it.
I added
IPQoS none
To my /etc/ssh/ssh_config
Looks like something ...
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SSH Error : bash: ./installer: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error
The problem is your system is an Arm64 platform, and the executable you're trying to run is an Intel64.
Those are two different hardware architectures, that require different binaries to run.
You can ...
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Unable to disable password authentication over SSH
I already resolved this issue. Inside the directory /etc/ssh/sshd_config.d/ there is only one .conf file (50-cloud-init.conf), but inside it contains the line: PasswordAuthentication yes
I changed the ...
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ssh refusing connection with message "no hostkey alg"
I was having the same problem connecting older clients to a Slackware 15 server. This thread is the top result for ssh "no hostkey alg" but the existing answers did not solve my problem, so ...
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Upgraded Ubuntu, now password to get into server will not work
That is the very picture of a successful login, complete with shell prompt awaiting your command.
Advice: The question suggests that you might be a very new user. I advise against using the root ...
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WSL Nano scrolling up to see terminal
Short summary:
I can reproduce your desired behavior in Ubuntu/WSL using Windows Terminal
I can reproduce the behavior that you don't like in Ubuntu/WSL using the legacy Windows Console Host
More ...
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How effective is Deja Dup backups?
Not for System-wide Backup
DejaDup is not the tool for system-wide backups. Backing up apps and system folders in Linux is tricky as one needs to preserve the ownership and permissions to make the ...
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On Ubuntu, a simple script with a disabling function didn't work
My guess is the script isn't run with Bash.
The shebang (first line of your script) is wrong. This should be:
#!/bin/bash
Then your if-statement is using [[, which is a "Bashism" - so I ...
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SSH without password does not work after upgrading from 18.04 to 22.04
Update: I suggest trying the command-line lower down to see if the configuration changes proposed will actually work, that way you'll only be making config changes if you've already checked that they'...
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Recent update for SSH breaks backward compatibility, how do I downgrade to the previous version?
I had a problem connecting to older devices, and I made it work in Ubuntu 22.04 with OpenSSH 8.9 / OpenSSL 3.0.2 by adding the following lines in the Host section of /etc/ssh/ssh_config on the client ...
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Using scp to copy a remote file containing spaces requires double space escaping. Why?
You can enable printing command traces before executing a command with set -x to see what is actually being passed to scp in the three cases like so:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~/test$ mkdir 'folder 1'
ubuntu@...
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