Downloading With SSH

Am trying to set up SSH key authentication with my new VPS.

When I use CyberDuck to log in to my VPS, the "fingerprint" is not matching the one that was created when my keys were created and the connection is failing.

I am wondering if the problem is due to the fact that I ran ssh-keygen on my MacBook and then copied and pasted the Public Key into a webform in cPanel?

While my host allows you to generate the key pair on the VPS, it creates a security issue in that I would then have to find a safe way to get my Private Key back to my MacBook.

So, instead, I opted for the opposite approach and chose to create the key pair on my Mac - thus leaving the Private Key untouched on my Mac.

Any idea what is going on?


Rob

I am using KTorrent to download ISO files and find it very slow downloading
the files. Can someone tell me what download client to use for ISO files that support resume download and which can download very fast.

I set up public key authentication between my MacBook and and VPS for added security and convenience when I SFTP things to my VPS.

Now I have some new clients who want me to manage their websites, and I want a similar set up for each client.

Do I need a public/private key pair for each client?

How can I be sure that whatever I do in my SFTP client doesn't put the other accounts - particularly my own VPS - at risk?

Thanks,


Rob

hi people,

i reinstalled my server with centos 7 to get familiar with it...

i have a laptop that im using cygwin on to ssh into the centos 7 server.

i ran ssh-keygen -t rsa on the server and now in .ssh i have a public and private key created.

i copied the public key from the server to my C:\cygwin64\home\Administrator\.ssh\known_hosts file

now when i input:
ssh userontheserver@serversip

it asks for the passphrase which i created when i did the keygen
on the server

when i put the passphrase in it says permission denied
and returns me to the command line

what am i doing wrong?

do i have the steps correct?

am i right in saying that you need to have the servers public key in your known_hosts file on the client computer to get communication working?

Trying to get my website set up, and not hang myself in the process!!

So, last night I was able to upload my website's DB from my laptop to my VPS using CyberDuck.

Being new to all of this, I uploaded the .sql file to...
Code:

/home/rob123/public_ftp/

Then I used MySQL to install the upload script.

That went well, but now I have this naked script floating around on my VPS!

How can I delete this .sql file and be 100% certain that it is NOT lingering somewhere else on the server, and that it CANNOT be recovered??

(For those of you who have followed my threads, I am *very* worried about files and login credentials and passwords getting stored in places that they shouldn't!!!)


Also, in retrospect I am thinking it wasn't so smart to upload my DB to a public folder like that.

In the future, what is a better way to upload sensitive files to my VPS to maintain complete Privacy and Security??

Oh the stress of it all!!!

Sincerely,


Rob

I have been asked to setup an SFTP which uses RSA public key authentication.

AS it was already in use I have opted to use CygWin and I can get it to work with passwords fine.

we are going to be hosting the SFTP server with users from the clients office connecting to it. The client has sent me their public key.

Having done LOts of reading and even more attempting to configure the server I just cant get it to work. Most of thetime I get..
ebug1: Host '127.0.0.1' is known and matches the ECDSA host key.
debug1: Found key in /home/ColoniAdmin/.ssh/known_hosts:1
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received
debug1: Roaming not allowed by server
debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_REQUEST sent
debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,keyboard-interactive
debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
debug1: Trying private key: /home/ColoniAdmin/.ssh/id_rsa
debug1: Trying private key: /home/ColoniAdmin/.ssh/id_dsa
debug1: Trying private key: /home/ColoniAdmin/.ssh/id_ecdsa
debug1: Trying private key: /home/ColoniAdmin/.ssh/id_ed25519
debug1: Next authentication method: keyboard-interactive
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,keyboard-interactive
debug1: No more authentication methods to try.
Permission denied (publickey,keyboard-interactive).

I have once managed to get it to the point of asking for a passphrase for the private key but I don't have a private key (that I know of) just the public key the client sent us. and I certainly don't want to have to use passphrases

Their public key is in the authorized_key file on our server within the .ssh folder of their home folder. I have amended paswd and sshd_config to set home location and to allow RSA authentication.

All and any advice is super welcome, I have been doing this for 2 weeks now and i just wont work.

HELP HELP HELP!!!!!! ;-)
Thanks

For the last few weeks I've been trying to setup SSH keys from my main Linux server to all of the other Linux servers that I use.

I'm using the HOWTO here

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questi...authentication

It didn't work. It was still asking for a password or the pass phrase.

So...I did my troubleshooting he

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questi...authentication

In the end, I deleted all of the public/private keys and did the following steps:

ssh-keygen (not specifiying a rsa key)

and then to copy over the key I did the following ssh-copy-id username@xx.xx.xx.xx

...and it worked!

I'm wanting to understand why this is working Vs the ways I'm seeing on other websites.

thanks

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When I run "yum install" for packages, seems it will download packages to /var/cache/yum. As there's limited free space on /, this will make / full very soon. So is there anyway that I can disable packages downloading to /var/cache/yum?

Thanks.

hi guys,

i understand the concept of a public and private key for ssh signing and encryption...i just dont get the implementation.

if you have a client and a server and you want two way communication do both have to have each others public keys in the .ssh/authorized_keys files on each respectively?

should you use a password? does it matter if you want to run say rsync from one to the other with a cron job or script?

does anybody just have a breakdown of exactly what you need to do and how it works in different situations...

i found this:

https://www.digitalocean.com/communi...up-ssh-keys--2

seemed to help...but im still not 100% clear...

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Someone said you can't use macs for linux. Is this correct?