I've read in various places, such as in this question that using an ssh key pair without a passphrase allows attackers to steal your private key if they gain access to your account. I assumed that by "steal" it meant they could fairly easily do a brute-force attack to try every possible private key until they found one that matched the public key stored in your account.
I'm done setting up ssh login using public/private key pair. I have my id_rsa (private key) in my ~/.ssh directory and also still have id_rsa.pub (public key) in the same directory.
...from my Mac. I think Keychain Access remembers my passphrase and applies it every time I log in to a server, but in this instance I can't log in to the remote server directly from my laptop; I have to first log in to a different server and then attempt to ssh to my target.
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Usually, people say, that using single public key on several servers is just as secure as using unique public keys on each of them. (If we're not talking about possibility of private key being compromised)
But... I don't get, if it's possible to "spoof your authentication" in the following case:
Preconditions
Suppose you're a happy owner of PC-1.
I have been using public key authentication on my servers for a while now, but I am experiencing issues on a new 'client' trying to connect to github. I have read many threads to verify that my permissions are set up correctly and have generated a new key for github. The problem I am facing is that ssh is asking for my passphrase even though I did not set a passphrase.
I have two servers in a datacenter, both running Windows Server 2008 R2. Both of these servers have 2 NICs. I am trying to setup one NIC to be used for public access and the other for a private network between the two servers (I have been assigned 2 private IP addresses by the datacenter).
I setup the first NIC (public) fine.
First, sorry if this question has already been asked/answered - I've searched but perhaps I haven't recognised the answer....
What we have is a cluster of servers which need to access a single remote server using sftp.
We are migrating from one remote server to another at the same (remote) location.
We also want to refresh the public/private key pairs on the configuration as part of an ongoing
Hey guys,
I am facing serious problems with the following code, and will appreciate any form of help.
public class WebHandler
{
private String username;
private String password;
private boolean errorOccured;
private String errorMessage;
private String server;
public WebHandler(String server)
{
this.server = server;
StrictMode.ThreadPolicy policy = new
StrictMode.ThreadPolicy.Builder
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