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Increased my VM disk size on Google Cloud Platform and now the SSH log in is asking for a password?

I increased the disk size on my VM instance running on Google Cloud Platform. There was a simple change from 200 GB to 400 GB with no other changes made on the Instance. When I started the instance ...
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How can I confirm SSH fingerprint when connecting to a new Amazon EC2 instance using PuTTY?

When I create a new EC2 instance running Ubuntu 18.04, using a new EC2-generated keypair, I convert the resulting .pem to .ppk using puttygen, then try to connect to the instance using PuTTY, and I am ...
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Putty "Server Refused our key" Google Cloud Platform compute engine instances

We have two compute engine instances(both Linux VM's) on one Project. One I had access through Putty and it was connecting fine. But the other instance I had the "Server Refused our Key" error when ...
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Jenkins is asking: do you trust this host, store key in cache

I installed Jenkins in our Windows Server machine and wanted to run some scripts that clones our private repo from bitbucket. In the script, all it does is to clone the repo in the appropiate ...
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problems with ssh connection: sometimes succesfull/sometimes timeout/sometimes hangs

I have a problem with ssh connection. I am using my Ubuntu 16.04 client to connect to the Centos7 server. I use ssh-key pairs to establish connections. But then a lot of weird things happen: Sometimes ...
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Security - I have tried to log in with my ssh key into the wrong address

I have tried to log in (SSH) into the wrong address, my AWS instance was off so I guess no-ip redirected to the old IP address. My private key was specified at putty configuration, is there any ...
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openssh - Adding an ssh key from putty to authorized_keys

I have been provided with an ssh key by a colleague to add to the authorized_keys file for an account on a linux server so they can access that account. The file looks something like this: ---- ...
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not able to generate public/ private key and successfully log into server

I've tried to create a private/public key using putty and puttygen although I'm still seeing the password prompt when launching putty with the specified private key in the connection/ssh/auth option. ...
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Extract a .pem file from an existing .ppk or from the server?

So I use windows and so when I first setup my server I had a pem key that I converted into a PPK using puttyGen. Now I no longer have the pem and need to access the server from a mac which uses .pem ...
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To generate key for AWS server using ssh-keygen from .pem for PuTTY

AWS gave me a private key in the format of .pem. I am trying to use it with PuTTY but failed and I read I need to generate a key with PuTTYgen but PuTTYgen is only for Windows. So I am trying to use ...
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Connecting AWS from Windows. Error: Using username "ec2-user". Server refused our key

I am connecting AWS EC2 using Putty from Windows 8, I followed all steps mentioned on this page of conversion of .pem to .ppk and have loaded .ppk in Putty. Putty Configurations: Host Address: ec2-...
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Server connects without passphrase via putty but asks for passphrase from the native command line?

I am trying to connect to an EC2 instance and it has a .ppk security key. I am not an expert on server frankly and I am still try to figure things out by trail and error. I usually connect to my ...
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Laravel Forge SSH on windows not recognized

I decided to try out the Laravel Forge, but I'm having trouble with the SSH keys. I use digitalocean.com for the VMs and have used SSH keys with success many times before. However when I paste my ...
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SSH "Server refused our key" for all users except root user [closed]

I followed this tutorial and key authentication worked great for root. but when I created user xxx and added different key in authorized_keys and tried to login using putty where error was shown " ...
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Changing the passphrase of a puttygen private key in Windows

I have a private key in Windows, created by puttygen.exe. I used default options to save it, the tool automatically gave it a .ppk extension, and it looks like this: PuTTY-User-Key-File-2: ssh-rsa ...
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How long does a PuTTY keyphrase need to be (i.e. how does PuTTY encrypt private keys)

I'd like to know what a good minimum password length for a PuTTY passphrase is. This depends on the amount of entropy the passphrase needs to have, which in turn depends on the length one attempt ...
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SSH Public Key Authentication not working with PuTTY

I have created a virtual machine and installed Redhat 6. I am having issues connecting using public key authentication. I can use PuTTY on my Windows host to connect to the redhat guest, where I am ...
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SSH from PuTTy to Debian "authorized_keys is not a regular file" Error

I cannot connect from my Windows 7 computer using PuTTy to a newly configured Debian Squeeze server using SSH RSA key authentication. I get this error when running SSH in debug mode: User myuser ...
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SSH key setup for Joyent Node SmartMachine and Windows?

I just got a Joyent Node SmartMachine. I'm using Windows. My goal is to SSH in to the SmartMachine and add/install things from GitHub. The issue I'm having is that I'm unable to connect to my ...
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