Posted on Fri 19 February 2016 in Computing • Tagged with ssh
This is a problem i've been having more and more as my collection of keys and \~/.ssh.config grows. Sometimes you just need to log in with a password but ssh will try all of your keys and then the server prevents you from trying a password challenge because you've …
There is always so much more to SSH than I know about. Here is another discovery I made today. This allows me to ssh into a machine via a gateway in just one command care of the -t flag
ssh -t agatewaymachine.com "ssh 192.168.1.253"
SSH is without doubt my favorite command line tool. Today I needed to transfer a file between two hosts that I could SSH to, but could not SSH to each other. This is really simple with a bit of standard UNIX piping.
ssh hostA cat somescript.sh | ssh hostB "cat …
This is such a useful feature of SSH that I wish I had know about before now.
When working remotely from an insecure location, or when only the remote location is trusted by another host, e.g for a firewall login or viewing intranet pages you only have access to …
Today I had a problem where the office firewall would not let out traffic to the fibs.com server on port 4321 (Shame on them!)
Luckerly a remote machine comes in handy. I then just tell my Fibs client to connect on localhost port 4444
ssh -f -L 4444:fibs …