Category: OpenSSH
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message from my hoster: “ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host”
I just ran into this today and it was because the server I was trying to connect to was overloaded with processing. So it may be possible that the server is low on memory or CPU starved.
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SSH on Windows: OpenSSH, PuTTY
On Windows OpenSSH’s “SSH authentication agent” is meant to run as Windows “service“. Starting a couple of years back, Microsoft decided, to deactivate that service by default. Now there are corporations, that do not want to have the “ssh-agent” service running at all. No SSH authentication agent, no caching of ssh ID-s (after enquiring the…
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how do you copy the public key to an ssh-server? ssh-copy-id
$ ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_ed25519-FOO.pub tim@just.some.other.server
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SSH, algorithms, key formats
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Shell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ssh-keygen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ssh-keygen#Key_formats_supported
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O’Reilly Media book: Linux Server Hacks, Volume One
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596004613.do https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/linux-server-hacks/0596004613/ It’s not officially called “Volume One”, but since there also appeared a “Volume Two”, it seems to make sense to call this one “Volume One”, right? The recipes, you can find here, are also applicable generally in the Unix world. chapter 6: SSH – really, really, really valuable chapter 6, hack# 69: “Running…