I am trying to generate a ssh key pair to retrieve for my professor to load onto a server.
I have a Macbook Air (2015) and I followed instructions given online at siteground.com for Mac OS generation.
This is the code:
Generating public/private rsa key pair.
Enter file in which to save the key (/Users/.ssh/id_rsa):
Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase):
Enter same passphrase again:
Your identification has been saved in /Users/.ssh/id_rsa.
Your public key has been saved in /Users/.ssh/id_rsa.pub.
The key fingerprint is:
vaRiOusLeTteRs
The key's randomart image is:
----Itookthisout
Now the issue is that when I try to access it this is what happens: I get a permission denied. How can I retrieve the .pub key to send it over?
(base) MacBook-Air-2:~ /Users/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
-bash: /Users/.ssh/id_rsa.pub: Permission denied
Thanks!
Question was solved by qasimalbaqali, I will use this one as the accepted question since he only left comments. Thanks again!
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I am trying to downloads pods for my Xcode project (there are many) and it is wanting me to enter my passphrase for almost every pod. How can I just enter my password once?
When you generated id_rsa pair you have used a password. Now it can't be used without password. It is located in ~/.ssh folder.
You can delete this key and recreate it.
But you lose all access to services where you use it.
Here is documentation how to create new pair (pub and priv keys)
https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/connecting-to-github-with-ssh/generating-a-new-ssh-key-and-adding-it-to-the-ssh-agent
Also you can try to change password with ssh-keygen -p
https://serverfault.com/questions/50775/how-do-i-change-my-private-key-passphrase
When you use blank password, it will not prompt to you each time.
After domain migration, I am unable to load my public keys at all. I tried deleting them, recreating them but always getting same error as below
PS D:\Personal\OpenSSH-Win32> .\ssh-keygen.exe
Generating public/private rsa key pair.
Enter file in which to save the key (C:\Users\raja/.ssh/id_rsa):
C:\Users\raja/.ssh/id_rsa already exists.
Overwrite (y/n)? y
Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase):
Enter same passphrase again:
Your identification has been saved in C:\Users\raja/.ssh/id_rsa.
fopen C:\\Users\\raja/.ssh/id_rsa.pub failed: Permission denied
PS D:\Personal\OpenSSH-Win32>
I have tried fixing permissions
chmod 600 ~/.ssh/id_rsa.*
chmod: cannot access '/c/Users/raja/.ssh/id_rsa.*': No such file or directory
But seems failed. Please help.
Since you are in windows, try to specify a valid path to store the file (it is, using backslash instead of slash):
Change from
C:\Users\raja/.ssh/id_rsa
to
C:\Users\raja\.ssh\id_rsa
I am looking for help to figure out how to tie a secret key with a passphrase to encrypt a file using GPG.
I had tested many option (--encrypt, --sign, --recipient, --symmetric, etc), but in all of them, I was able to decrypt the file typing only the passphrase, even in a machine where I don't have the public nor the private/secret keys.
Is there a way to force the user to have the secret key and to be asked to type the passphrase?
I am open to any other idea that force a double security check to decrypt the protected file.
Thanks,
during decryption process type
gpg --allow-secret-key-import --import PrivateKey.gpg
after that prompt will appear for passphrase, enter the passphrase and after that decrypt file using
gpg filename.gpg
I use this command on git bash
`$ ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "eu.json#gmail.com"`
After that, these line of text show.
`'Generating public/private rsa key pair.
Enter file in which to save the key (/c/Users/jayson/.ssh/id_rsa):'.`
There is no other line of text shown and stuck there, I wait for long time and still nothing happen not like the video that i follow, I need to use it on laravel homestead.
You are supposed to click ENTER (twice if you don't want a passphrase associated to the private key).
That will validate the file to be saved.
/c/Users/jayson/.ssh/id_rsa (private key)
/c/Users/jayson/.ssh/id_rsa.pub (public key)
I am attempting to connect to an Amazon EC2 Server via Mac Terminal. I have a PPK file that does not have a password attached to it, but when I try to connect I get a popup box that says "Enter the password for the SSH Private Key."
So we tried creating a PPK that has a password - but it does not accept the password, it still rejects the connection.
I have a Windows user who is able to connect using the same PPK on Putty.
Has anyone experienced this issue?
The mac is looking for a .pem key. The ppk is generated specifically for putty. If you don't have the original ppk key.
Download puttygen.exe from http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html Then go to conversions -> export OpenSSH key. Save the output as a .pem file and try using that with the mac.
If this doesn't work can you post the command you're running from mac. Its possible you've got some extra parameter or something.
Maybe your problem is with permissions for your key. I know in linux its required to change the permissions.
Taken from the website http://om4.com.au/ssh-rsa-key-pairs-passphrases-leopard/
Clear the contents of your ~/.ssh directory and set the directory permissions to 700 (directories need to be "executable")
$ rm ~/.ssh/*
$ chmod 700 ~/.ssh
Generate your rsa key pair (there are variations for this, but this is the version I used):
$ ssh-keygen -t rsa
Set the permissions for all files in ~/.ssh to 600
$ chmod 600 ~/.ssh
Copy your id_rsa.pub key to your server’s .ssh/authorized_keys file
Add your passphrase to your keychain using this command:
$ ssh-add -K
(you will see Enter passphrase for [your system]/.ssh/id_rsa: )
The error Enter your password for the SSH key x can result from using a key of the wrong format (such as a ppk key) in ssh or sftp. This is because it is interpreted as an encrypted ssh key and so prompts for the passphrase, when actually there is no passphrase.
In OS X I was able to simulate this error by simply typing the following into the command line:
sftp -o IdentityFile=randomtextfile mysftpserver.com
The solution is to convert the file using puttygen as suggested by bwight.
In addition to the other answers, the issue might come from the fact you haven't specified which user you want to connect as.
For example ssh -i francky.pem 208.52.170.43 will ask you for your password on Mac, whereas ssh -i francky.pem root#208.52.170.43 shouldn't. Note that on Linux you don't specify the user.
I was running into the exact same problem in MAC, I found a quite simple way of getting rid of it.
Instead of using ssh -i IP address, use the following>
ssh user#IP
Hope you already found the answer after this long time :)
In my case, the problem was the file's break type. Try this:
1.- Open the .pem file with TextWrangler
2.- At Bottom of app, verify if the Break Type is "Windows(CRLF)".
This issue had me pulling my hair out for 20 min or so. Realized that I was able to connect successfully from another terminal window. In my case I just had to close out the current terminal window and use another or new window. Very strange, but may help you out.