ssh-add “Error connecting to agent: Connection refused”
Start the ssh-agent by running $ eval “$(ssh-agent)” in your terminal window.
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Ansible provisioning ERROR! Using a SSH password instead of a key is not possible
Create a file ansible/ansible.cfg in your project directory (i.e. ansible.cfg in the provisioning_path on the target) with the following contents: [defaults] host_key_checking = false provided that your Vagrant box has sshpass already installed – it’s unclear, because the error message in your question suggests it was installed (otherwise it would be “ERROR! to use the … Read more
SSH Error: Permission denied (publickey,password) in Ansible
I fixed the issue. The problem was in my /etc/ansible/hosts file. The content written in /etc/ansible/hosts was 10.4.1.141. But when I changed it to rajat@10.4.1.141, then the issue got fixed.
scp fails with “protocol error: filename does not match request”
I ended up having a look through the source code and found the commit where this error is thrown: GitHub Commit remote->local directory copies satisfy the wildcard specified by the user. This checking provides some protection against a malicious server sending unexpected filenames, but it comes at a risk of rejecting wanted files due to … Read more
How do I download SCP and ssh on Cygwin?
When you run the Cygwin installer again to install new packages, you might notice that searching for “scp” produces no results. It’s actually part of the “openssh” package.
SSH onto Vagrant Box With Different Username
You can ssh to the box using vagrant but NOT kevin, that’s expected. Most Vagrant base boxes have only 2 users with SSH access, root and vagrant. They both use vagrant as password, in addition, vagrant is configured for public key authentication using the insecure (why? see Vagrant insecure by default?) key pair provided in … Read more
using ssh keys with scp and ssh
Assume your case for scp from 192.168.1.1 try below command. scp -i ~/.ssh/mytest.key root@192.168.1.1:/<filepath on host> <path on client> make sure the key file should have permission 600 or 400.
How to pass a user / password in ansible command
The docs say you can specify the password via the command line: -k, –ask-pass. ask for connection password Ansible can also store the password in the ansible_password variable on a per-host basis.
Using “Remote SSH” in VSCode on a target machine that only allows inbound SSH connections
When you connect to a host it executes a bash script that wgets or curls a tarball and extracts it in a directory in your home directory. Here’s an offline workaround. Attempt to connect, let it fail On server, get the commit id $ ls ~/.vscode-server/bin 553cfb2c2205db5f15f3ee8395bbd5cf066d357d Download tarball replacing $COMMIT_ID with the the commit … Read more