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Commands using ssh

Terminal - Commands using ssh - 273 results

ssh-copy-id username@hostname

2009-02-16 12:11:26

User: flart

Functions: ssh

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Copy your SSH public key on a remote machine for passwordless login - the easy way

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cat ~/.ssh/*.pub | ssh user@remote-system 'umask 077; cat >>.ssh/authorized_keys'

2009-02-16 11:29:12

User: DASKAjA

Functions: cat ssh

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Copy your SSH public key on a remote machine for passwordless login.

Should run on any system with ssh installed.

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ssh -L 5900:localhost:5900 user@exampleserver.com

2009-02-13 04:53:27

User: Jackie

Functions: ssh

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tunnel vnc port

Foward vnc securely from exampleserver.com

cat .ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh hostname 'cat >> .ssh/authorized_keys'

2009-02-11 17:40:12

User: bendavis78

Functions: cat hostname ssh

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Add your public SSH key to a server in one command

Just run the command, type your password, and that's the last time you need to enter your password for that server.

This assumes that the server supports publickey authentication. Also, the permissions on your home dir are 755, and the permissions on your .ssh dir are 700 (local and remote).

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dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M | ssh somesite dd of=/dev/null

2009-02-11 13:03:14

User: vbs100

Functions: dd ssh

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dd and ssh

waste the band width

while [ ! -f /tmp/stop ]; do ssh -o ExitOnForwardFailure=yes -R 2222:localhost:22 target "while nc -zv localhost 2222; do sleep 5; done"; sleep 5;done

2009-02-08 12:45:43

User: jianingy

Functions: sleep ssh

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ssh tunnel with auto reconnect ability

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diff <(ssh nx915000 "rpm -qa") <(ssh nx915001 "rpm -qa")

2009-02-08 12:41:25

User: jianingy

Functions: diff ssh

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find the difference between two nodes

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echo -n m{1..5}.cluster.net | xargs -d' ' -n1 -P5 -I{} ssh {} 'uptime'

2009-02-08 12:34:04

User: jianingy

Functions: echo ssh xargs

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run command on a group of nodes in parallel

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dd if=/dev/dsp | ssh -c arcfour -C username@host dd of=/dev/dsp

2009-02-08 10:10:00

User: morpheus

Functions: dd ssh

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output your microphone to a remote computer's speaker

This will output the sound from your microphone port to the ssh target computer's speaker port. The sound quality is very bad, so you will hear a lot of hissing.

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tar -cvzf - /source/path | ssh <targethostname> -l <username> dd of=/destination/path/backupfile.tgz

2009-02-06 15:52:09

User: smm

Functions: dd ssh tar

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Adhoc tar backup

Creates a quick backup with tar to a remote host over ssh.

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ssh -N -L2001:localhost:80 -o "ProxyCommand ssh someuser@hubmachine nc -w 5 %h %p" someuser@destinationmachine

2009-02-06 09:58:08

User: mischamolhoek

Functions: ssh

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setup a tunnel from destination machine port 80 to localhost 2001, via a second (hub) machine.

this is handy when the hubmachine is the only machine that can connect to the destination machine (allowed on ip by firewall) and you want to access it from your laptop.

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cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh user@machine "mkdir ~/.ssh; cat >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys"

2009-02-05 19:37:56

User: DEinspanjer

Functions: cat ssh

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Copy your ssh public key to a server from a machine that doesn't have ssh-copy-id

If you use Mac OS X or some other *nix variant that doesn't come with ssh-copy-id, this one-liner will allow you to add your public key to a remote machine so you can subsequently ssh to that machine without a password.

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ssh-keygen -l -f [pubkey] | awk '{print $2}' | tr -ds ':' '' | egrep -ie "[a-f0-9]{32}"

2009-02-05 17:42:30

User: wwest4

Functions: awk egrep ssh ssh-keygen tr

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Validate openssh key & print checksum

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ssh-keygen -i -f $sshkeysfile >> authorized_keys

2009-02-05 17:32:02

User: wwest4

Functions: ssh ssh-keygen

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Convert an ssh2 public key to openssh format

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dump 0f - / | bzip -c9 | ssh user@host "cat > /home/user/root.dump.bz2"

2009-02-05 17:22:32

User: wwest4

Functions: dump ssh

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Dump root ext3 fs over ssh

...can do similar w/ tar, dd, xfsdump, e2fsdump, etc.

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vimdiff tera.py <(ssh -A testserver "cat tera.py")

2009-02-05 15:54:33

User: te

Functions: ssh

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vimdiff to remotehost

ssh-keygen -R \[localhost\]:8022

2009-02-05 11:48:09

User: Sekenre

Functions: ssh ssh-keygen

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Remove invalid host keys from ~/.ssh/known_hosts

Useful if you have to tunnel ssh through a local port and it complains of the host key being different. Much easier than manually editing the file.

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ping localip -c 1 -W 1 &> /dev/null && ssh localip || ssh globalip

2009-02-05 10:40:26

User: trey

Functions: ping ssh

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SSH to a machine's internet address if it is not present on your local network

Ping machine once, waiting 1 second for response until failing. Upon fail, ssh globally, otherwise ssh locally.

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ssh -N -L2001:localhost:80 somemachine

2009-02-05 09:13:23

User: mischamolhoek

Functions: ssh

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start a tunnel from some machine's port 80 to your local post 2001

now you can acces the website by going to http://localhost:2001/

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ssh somemachine "cd some dir; tar zcpf - somedirname" |tar zxpf -

2009-02-05 09:10:56

User: mischamolhoek

Functions: ssh

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get a directory from one machine to another using tar and ssh

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ssh user@host cat /path/to/remotefile | diff /path/to/localfile -

2009-02-04 11:33:19

User: root

Functions: cat diff ssh

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Compare a remote file with a local file

Useful for checking if there are differences between local and remote files.

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tar czv file1 file2 folder1 | ssh user@server tar zxv -C /destination

2009-01-29 10:38:26

User: xsawyerx

Functions: ssh tar

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scping files with streamlines compression (tar gzip)

it compresses the files and folders to stdout, secure copies it to the server's stdin and runs tar there to extract the input and output to whatever destination using -C. if you emit "-C /destination", it will extract it to the home folder of the user, much like `scp file user@server:`.

the "v" in the tar command can be removed for no verbosity.

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ssh user@host "ps aux | grep httpd | wc -l"

2009-01-27 00:46:17

User: root

Functions: ssh

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Run a command on a remote machine

This counts the number of httpd processes running.

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