Tell SSH to use a graphical prompt for key passphrase
How can I force SSH to request passphrases using a graphical prompt (GTK, for example) instead of the standard one that uses the terminal?
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Is there a way to communicate with someone at their desktop?
My wife is sitting at her home desktop, alpha, which is running a recent version of Ubuntu. I am on a bus, using ConnectBot on my G1 phone, and can SSH into alpha from wherever I am.
How can I break away from an SSH session that has crashed?
Many times I have an SSH session that doesn’t respond anymore (for example, when I lose internet connection and then reconnect). Ctrl+C, Ctrl+D, Ctrl+Z and a zillion of key presses don’t have any effect.
What’s ssh port forwarding and what’s the difference between ssh local and remote port forwarding
local: -L Specifies that the given port on the local (client) host is to be forwarded to the given host and port on the remote side.
Can I move a running application to a different X server?
xmove is a computer program that allows the movement of X Window
System applications between different displays and the persistence of
X applications across X server restarts.[4] It solves a problem in the
design of X, where an X client (an X application) is tied to the X
server (X display) it was started on for its lifetime. Also, if the X
server is shut down, the client application is forced to stop running.
How are terminal length and width forwarded over SSH and telnet?
When I view the length and width of my terminal emulator with stty size then it is 271 characters long and 71 lines tall. When I log into another server over SSH and execute stty size, then it is also 271 characters long and 71 lines tall. I can even log into some Cisco IOS device and terminal is still 271 characters long and 71 lines tall:
ssh to private-ip
I have a computer with CentOS (computer A) that configured as has an private ip 10.150.5.141 (with restricted firewall), can access internet and my ArchLinux VPS (computer B) with real ip w.x.y.z
ssh returns message “X11 forwarding request failed on channel 1”
When I ssh into a remote server that’s not running any type of X11 desktop environment I get the following message.
Is it possible to set Gnome Terminal’s title to “[email protected]” for whatever host I’m connected to?
I’d like to set the terminal title to [email protected] so I can easily tell which machine I’m connected to from the window title. Is there a way to do this from SSH or from GNOME Terminal?
How can I propagate my SSH pub key to a list of servers without having to type my password in over and over?
I was recently given username/password access to a list of servers and want to propagate my SSH public key to these servers, so that I can login more easily.