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if you cannot logon to a linux machine and you got an error:
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Tag Archives: ssh
Linux: Use ssh agent forwarding while sudo to another user
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if you are logged on as a user1 and switch to another user2 with sudo the ssh agent from user1 cannot be used because the “switched” user2 does nothing know about the ssh-agent respectively the agent socket.
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Linux: Creating a ssh keypair with ssh-keygen
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ssh-keygen can be used to generate a new ssh key pair.
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Linux: Using ssh-agent
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if you do not always want to enter your private key password/passphrase when using certificate based ssh or scp connections then ssh-agent is your friend 🙂 .
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Linux: Regenerate sshd host keys
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to generate sshd host keys, for example in case of cloning a virtual linux instance, do the following steps:
Checkout the key file names
root@debdevt:~# grep HostKey /etc/ssh/sshd_config
# HostKeys for protocol version 2
HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key
HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key
HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ecdsa_key
HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key
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