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Why do i need to restrict permissions on a PEM key?

I have a .pem key file that i use to ssh to my ec2 server. I've moved this key file to an encrypted external SSD disk. This has caused the owner of the pem key to be set to 'everyone'. When i try to ...
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SSH to Windows server, fetching public keys from LDAP

We've got an established process where users connecting to an Ubuntu server via SSH have their public keys retrieved from our LDAP infrastructure and then PAM sets up their home directory, etc. I need ...
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SSH connection issue : How to change folder / file permissions in Windows similarly to Linux?

I have hard times connecting my local PC through SSH to another remote PC. I set the public key on both machines in the authorized_keys folder following this tutorial : https://help.ubuntu.com/...
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PasswordLess SSH

We have establish a Passwordless SSH connection between Windows Machine and Linux. For this we have copied public key in .ssh/authorized_key in linux machine. SSH connection was working fine and we ...
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SSH from windows to AIX

I am trying to do SSH from Windows to AIX. I am able to do SSH.But i have some doubt how SSH is working here. pqp1111 is the user in AIX server. In home directory of pqp1111 i can see below key is ...
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How to use ssh client without local OS login

I have server-like machines (they are not workstations, fully automated) and I need them to be able to run a script that opens a client ssh connection (to a 3rd party server such as github), and I ...
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How to get Terraform to see the identity when using KeeAgent?

I am creating servers on AWS using Terraform on a Windows machine and that is working great. When they are created I want to install docker on them. However, after creating them, the SSH connection ...
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Linux to Windows SSH authorized_keys

I want to connect into a Windows Box from my Ubuntu PC via ssh using key authentication but I don't know how to do it. I've tried to send the id_rsa.pub to Windows and then rename it to ...
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How to use OpenSSH certificates on Windows?

OpenSSH supports signing user keys with a certificate authority. From man ssh-keygen: ssh-keygen supports signing of keys to produce certificates that may be used for user or host authentication. ...
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Is there any way to change the key pair on a windows ami in aws

The situation, I've inherited a windows infrastructure in AWS. The ami's were created with someone else's keypair who has now left the business. I have a requirement to remove those keys. The way I ...
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Windows Password won't decrypt on AWS EC2 even with the correct private key

I created a new Windows instance on AWS EC2, using a keypair I created by uploading my public key from my local machine. The instance launched fine, but it won't decrypt the password. It reports: I'...
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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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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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SFTP without password prompt (from linux to windows)

I'm using freeFTPd as a sftp server on windows machine. From my linux machine(ubuntu) I want to do a SFTP from to windows and i want to bypass entering password as i'm trying to do this with scripts. ...
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Is there an equivalent to ssh-copy-id for Windows?

Is there any equivalent or port of ssh-copy-id available for Windows? That is, is there an easy way to transfer SSH keys from a local machine to a remote server under Windows? In case it helps, I'm ...
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