Questions tagged [openssh]
A free and open implementation of the SSH communication security tools.
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How can ssh-keygen be used to update /etc/ssh/moduli?
I have some machines whose primes in /etc/ssh/moduli are now considered too weak because they are less than 2048 bits. There are a couple questions on this site concerning the consequences of updating ...
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Why are FIDO2 protected SSH keys affected by phishing attacks?
The OpenSSH developers have written in a description of the "agent restrictions" feature that FIDO2 tokens are vulnerable to phishing attacks: https://www.openssh.com/agent-restrict.html
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ssh server encrypted key vs password login [duplicate]
In an openssh-server login to a GNU/Linux machine
to use a private ssh key encrypted with an N-characters passphrase, then sshd_config:
PasswordAuthentication no
PubkeyAuthentication yes
is it ...
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Best practices for securing SSH access? Is certificate-based VPN server a good solution?
I run a server on a hosting. I want to harden it, but ssh access is giving me a bit of concerns.
I usually access from home most of the times. I have a provider subscription with the usual DHCP setup ...
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OpenSSH Primes - can there be such a thing as "too few" primes available?
The (old) Secure Secure Shell guide suggests (re)creating /etc/ssh/moduli so sshd has safe prime numbers to use for Diffie-Helman.
I've generated a 4096-bit moduli file with ssh-keygen -G -b 4096, and ...
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Is it possible to regenerate the stub private key from just the physical key in OpenSSH?
Let's say I make an id of type ed25519-sk and have it reside on my yubikey. OpenSSH makes two files, id_ed25519_sk, a stub private key, and id_ed25519_sk.pub the corresponding public key.
If I lose ...
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Is it possible to use an ed25519 security key with Google Chrome SSH applets?
After generating an OpenSSH EC key on a hardware security key:
$ ssh-keygen -t ed25519-sk -C comment
Is it possible to use this key with Google Chrome SSH applet or Mosh, in particular on non-Linux ...
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How sensitive is the primary key stub of an ed25519 security key (~/.ssh/id_ed25519_sk)?
Now that OpenSSH supports Elliptic curve security keys (since version 8.2), it's possible to generate a ed25519-sk key on a hardware security key:
$ ssh-keygen -t ed25519-sk -C comment
This generates ...
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SSH to github.com only adds RSA keys - excludes ed25519 host keys
I am doing some tests around ssh. From what I have seen a server usually has multiple host keys. When a client tries to connect, it tries to negotiate which key types to use DSA, RSA, ECDSA, etc. But ...
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Are there any known SSH (protocol or implementation) vulnerabilities which can be performed on a tor hidden service?
The last couple of weeks I have been researching possible attacks that can be performed on a Tor hidden service using SSH from a location different from that of the server, assuming the .onion address ...
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What are possible implications of ignoring the ssh host key warning?
With password authentication you're basically giving your password to the attacker. At least that is my understanding. What about public key authentication? I hear that a private key never leaves your ...
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Bypass time limitation of OpenSSH when using Nmap [duplicate]
Terminal command:
$ nmap 10.10.244.76 -p 22 --script ssh-brute \
--script-args userdb=trash.txt,passdb=rockyou.list,timeout=4s
NSE: [ssh-brute] usernames: Time limit 15m00s exceeded.
NSE: [ssh-...
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Why are rsa-sha2-512 and rsa-sha2-256 supported but not reported by ssh -Q key?
Running on macOS, I see these available key algorithms:
$ ssh -V
OpenSSH_8.1p1, LibreSSL 2.7.3
$ ssh -Q key
ssh-ed25519
ssh-ed25519-cert-v01@openssh.com
ssh-rsa
ssh-dss
ecdsa-sha2-nistp256
ecdsa-sha2-...
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OpenSSH AuthorizedPrincipalsFile Allows Any User
I am bewildered as to the below config and subsequent behaviour.
/etc/ssh/sshd_config:
AuthorizedPrincipalsFile /etc/ssh/principals
/etc/ssh/principals:
all
host.example.com
dev
This allows me to ...
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How does ed25519-sk actually works?
My google-foo failed me as most "how it works" sections related to fido are very... let's say... consumer-oriented.
So openssh supports U2F natively when using the appropriate elliptic-curve-...
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OpenSSH authorized_keys options for securely tunneling to a database
I would like to allow people to tunnel to either db1.example.net or db2.example.net based on their SSH public keys via a bastion server bastion.example.net. What SSHD options should I add to the ~/....
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Is getting server host key with ssh-keyscan secure?
I am trying to establish SSH connection to a server through a program.
As a pre-requisite to be able to do so, I am getting the publicly available server host key using ssh-keyscan <hostname> ...
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ssh -Q key not listing all key types?
I am having some problems with understanding which types of host keys my SSH daemon actually provides or supports (stock debian buster, sshd 7.9.p1). From the manual (man sshd_config):
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How to interpret received packets, although not being destination host
Set up:
Victim: 192.168.0.2
Attacker (also having SSH server installed): 192.168.0.3
SSH server: 192.168.0.4
I perform a successful ARP Spoofing attack (being obviously the attacker's MAC address):
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Why should we only keep the private key secret, why not the public key? [duplicate]
If I am not wrong, both private key and public key are the same since communication is possible only if both keys are matching. So, why we should only keep the private key secret, why not public key? ...
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ssh-keygen: How to guarantee the uniqueness of serial numbers?
(FYI: I'm using Ubuntu 18.04 Desktop although I don't think my question is platform-dependent.)
I read the article Scalable and secure access with SSH and it says:
... if you want to use revocation ...
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SSH Public Key Authentication Strength Port 22 [duplicate]
Let’s say I have a server with Port 22 opened to the internet , password authentication disabled, and root remote login disabled. Only Key Authentication is enabled. If the key is tightly secured, is ...
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How to convert 64byte openssh-key-v1 to the resulting 32byte ed25519 private key
I wrote an openssh-key-v1 Protocol reader and extracted all fields according to the format definition:
"openssh-key-v1"0x00 # NULL-terminated "Auth Magic" string
32-bit length,...
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How hacker/ others get your SSH private key / stole your SSH private key?
I know we must keep private keys secure, but as long as we don't share the private key, what can go wrong?
How hackers/others can steal/get your private key?
What is the possible way that can happen ...
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Efficiently handling malicious, single connection attempts to a server?
I wanted to know what efficient way is there to handle malicious attempts to connect to my server by single IPs. The attempts show up logged in /var/log/auth.log as Connection closed by IPaddress port ...
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OpenSSH artifacts, remote system access? [duplicate]
After stumbling upon some unknown folders in my unused OneDrive (posted question), I did some digging arround and found some interesting logs. Apparently, OpenSSH had been used for remote access on my ...
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Recommendations on minimal alternatives to openssh [closed]
Although openssh is awesome, I'm interested in exploring some more lightweight FLOSS alternatives to use for connecting to servers I'm administrating (and using alone). Since I only need a minimal ...
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How does the weakness of SHA-1 introduce attack vectors in SSH?
The security branch of my company worries that the use of older versions of OpenSSH (pre-7.4), where the only Key Exchange Algorithm available is SHA-1 is a major security issue. They suggest ...
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GPG Agent SSH Forward Pinentry
I have GPG agent forwarding via SSH RemoteForward working up to a point.
I can list my private and public keys on the remote host.
If I try to decrypt a file remotely, the PIN is prompted for but the ...
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OpenSSH: Meaning of cipher with email address @openssh.com
When using OpenSSH server (sshd) we specify allowed ciphers, host key algorithms and MACs. Some of those ciphers have an email address appended, for example aes256-gcm@openssh.com as opposed to aes256-...
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Risk of committing IdentityFile name for OpenSSH configuration to public repository
What is the risk of committing the IdentityFile line for each of my Host entries in my ~/.ssh/config to my public dotfiles repository? Would providing such information make it any easier for an ...
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Benefit of using OpenSSH FIDO/U2F support over GPG mode?
OpenSSH version 8.2 introduced support for FIDO/U2F hardware authenticators, via the new public key types "ecdsa-sk" and "ed25519-sk".
I currently have SSH authentication set up in combination with ...
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OpenSSH declares ssh-rsa deprecated. What do I do next?
With the 8.2 release of OpenSSH, they have declared that ssh-rsa for SHA-1 will soon be removed from the defaults:
Future deprecation notice
It is now possible[1] to perform chosen-prefix ...
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Interpreting SSH information on Windows Event Viewer.... sshd: Did not receive identification string from ipaddress on port portnumber
I am currently reading through Windows Event Log (OpenSSH) looking at the artefacts created by an attack, I am trying to understand the meaning of certain notifications.
A brute force attack was ...
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Does it weaken the encryption of SSH to use compression?
When using compression on openssh (a la ssh -C ...), does this reduce entropy and make the tunnel traffic more vulnerable to cryptanalysis? Is compression an option I should disable server-side for ...
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SSH and the ECDH component
With SSH, most of my servers use ed25519 (the twisted Edwards variant EC) for authentication.
I was wondering, after authentication with ed25519, does SSH protocol 2 simple use ephemeral/ephemeral ...
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How to accept only user identity keys of type ed25519 on OpenSSH Linux server?
I want to force all users to use only ed25519 type keys when logging in via SSH / SFTP to a Linux server which is running a recent version* of OpenSSH.
Some general reasons for putting controls on SSH ...
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Does `ssh-keyscan` verify the legitimacy of the host(s) it scans?
There are tutorials on the web, such as this one: https://blog.oddbit.com/post/2019-02-24-docker-build-learns-about-secr/
They show you sample code to run ssh-keyscan in an automated manner so that ...
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changing defaults when generating new SSH server keys
On Debian, I can generate new SSH server keys:
rm /etc/ssh/ssh_host_*
dpkg-reconfigure openssh-server
but that will generate the keys with default values, ie 2048 RSA key.
What is happening under ...
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SSH (ssh_auth_list) authentication failing from windows to linux
Bit new in ssh and have an issue in understanding. I got a code which uses ssh_auth_list routine as below.
method = ssh_auth_list(session);
printf(" %d " , method);
I am using a ssh library and when ...
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Convert ECDSA keys (PEM, OpenSSH)
To work with ECDSA keys I am using the python-ecdsa library. Unfortunately this library can not process keyfiles properly if they are provided in the OpenSSH format. Instead I generate them in the PEM ...
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Exposure of /etc/ssh, risks?
I accidentally exposed the keys in /etc/ssh
What is the risk?
I think it will allow someone to impersonate the server and conduct MITM.
Will it let someone SSH into the server? I think not because ...
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Sufficient to only require 2FA for su elevation?
I have a small web-facing server on my home network. It is headless, and the only way to log in is to ssh with pubkey authentication from within the local network.
I wanted to turn on a 2FA ...
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Bruteforcing via port 88 on MacOS
Macos has open port 88 by default. Is it possible to check validity of the password via this port from Linux and how?
If the vncserver is active, it is possible to know also the username (by ...
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Can a SSH jump host act as MITM?
Let's say, for example, a company has a "centralised" SSH bastion/jump host on an untrusted server (e.g. a virtual machine in "the cloud").
Meanwhile the corporate/customer/whatever network(s) have ...
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How were attackers able to login to the Apache Foundation's infrastructure over ssh with passwords? (2010)
SSH passwords should not have been enabled for login over the Internet. Although the Infrastructure Team had attempted to configure the sshd daemon to disable password-based logins, having UsePAM yes ...
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Loading a passphrase-protected private SSH key from a file with the cryptography Python module
I am trying to load a passphrase-protected private SSH key from a file using the cryptography Python module. However, I'm not exactly sure how to proceed. The following yields a Crypto.Util.Padding....
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How do I determine if an existing SSH private key is secure?
For an ordinary user, how would I verify that a private key file was generated using reasonably secure algorithms? In response to things like allegedly insecure ssh-keygen defaults.
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Possible to get sshd (openssh) to log the public key of failed key based login attempts?
As I understand sshd (openssh in my case) typically does/may log the fingerprint/hash of the public key of incoming connections which are attempting to authenticate via key.
What I'm looking for is ...
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Could a running SSH server somehow fool connected SSH client to create a reverse port forward?
Let's be extra paranoid and assume that the SSH server my client is connected to, was "enhanced" so that every SSH client that establishes an connection with it, will be tricked into thinking that it ...
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