Hello all,
I have a bit of trouble working a passwordless SSH from UNIX to Cygwin running windows 2k3. Here are some details. I AM able to SSH from the Windows box to the UNIX box using the keys. Also, I'm able to SSH from UNIX to Windows w/o the keys. However, when I try to do it with the keys... (9 Replies)
Hi everyone,
I have a quick/newb question:
I know that a public key is used to encrypt data and a private key is used to decrypt data but who keeps the public/private keys??
Does the Web Server hold both?
Does the Web Server have the public key and does the client have the private key? ... (3 Replies)
Hi everybody,
I need some help on writing a script that is able to remote copy file to one server. I already created this types of scripts, and works ok as long as this server I want to copy from is access through telnet. Here is how I do it:
ftp -n xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx << _EOF_
user user_name... (6 Replies)
hello,
iam able to ssh to a linux server from a linux server called "machine1" using the private/public key method, so I dont need to enter any password when I run my script but iam not able to ssh from machine1 to a UNIX server, access is denied.
note that I am using an application id which is... (6 Replies)
Hi, I've used the following way to set ssh public key authentication and it is working fine on Solaris 10, RedHat Linux and SuSE Linux servers without any problem. But I got error 'Server refused our key' on Solaris 8 system. Solaris 8 uses SSH2 too. Why? Please help. Thanks.
... (1 Reply)
Hi,
please guide me create a public/private key using ssh-keygen, lets say I have been access to server named pngpcdb1with a userid and password ...!!! and also please explain in detail the concept of these keys and ssh as I was planning to use them in ftp related scripts..! Thanks in... (1 Reply)
Hi,
What tool is used to generate public and private keys for SCP?
Do you have an example script that generates these keys, puts them in files and then another example script that references them from SCP?
Thanks, (9 Replies)
Hi All,
I have a requirement where i need to check if an rsa public key corresponds to a private key and hence return success or failure. Currently i am using the command
diff <( ssh-keygen -y -e -f "$PRIVKEY" ) <( ssh-keygen -y -e -f "$PUBLICKEY" )
and its solving my purpose. This is in... (1 Reply)
Hi,
we have private and public key, encrypt file using public and want to decrypt using private key. can you please advise below commands are correct or other remedy if unix have?
encrypt -a arcfour -k publickey.asc -i TESTFILE.csv -o TESTFILE00.csv
decrypt -a arcfour -k privatekey.asc... (2 Replies)
I have a user account configuration with ssh public/private key that works on multiple servers centos and rhel. One server (Server F) that is not working in centos 6.8. When i ssh into server f I get prompted for a password. I have verified the config and it all is good. I put sshd into debug... (8 Replies)
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dropbearkey
dropbearkey(8) System Manager's Manual dropbearkey(8)NAME
dropbearkey - create private keys for the use with dropbear(8)SYNOPSIS
dropbearkey -t type -f file [-s bits] [-y]
DESCRIPTION
dropbearkey generates a RSA or DSS format SSH private key, and saves it to a file for the use with the dropbear(8) SSH 2 server. Note that
some SSH implementations use the term "DSA" rather than "DSS", they mean the same thing.
OPTIONS -t type
Type of key to generate. Must be one of rsa or dss.
-f file
Write the secret key to the file file.
-s bits
Set the key size to bits bits, should be multiple of 8 (optional).
-y Just print the publickey and fingerprint for the private key in file.
EXAMPLE
generate a host-key:
# dropbearkey -t rsa -f /etc/dropbear/dropbear_rsa_host_key
extract a public key suitable for authorized_keys from private key:
# dropbearkey -y -f id_rsa | grep "^ssh-rsa " >> authorized_keys
AUTHOR
Matt Johnston (matt@ucc.asn.au).
Gerrit Pape (pape@smarden.org) wrote this manual page.
SEE ALSO dropbear(8), dbclient(1)
http://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/dropbear.html
dropbearkey(8)