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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…

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/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…

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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…

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