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SSH config file template
Make sure permissions are correct on ssh config # create config file touch ~/.ssh/config chmod 600 ~/.ssh/config SSH config examples Host fivemin HostName 10.13.37.5 User five Port 22 IdentityFile ~/.ssh/fivemin.key…
/usr/bin/ssh-copy-id: ERROR: failed to open ID file
SSH-COPY-ID is unable to find the public and private key pair ... If you renamed the default id_rsa to mykey.key, try to remove the ".key" part of the filename and re-run the command. An alternative is to use the -f…
Exclude my host from tcpdump
Connecting to a host through ssh and monitoring the connection with tcpdump spews out a lot of information. Say that we have a peculiar situation, we want to monitor ssh traffic on the server, but not our connection…