I feel like I am missing some fundamental concept as to how the .ssh directory works in windows. I have had no issues when working in OSX/Linux like I am having now. My end goal is simply to move my existing ssh key into the default ~/.ssh directory, and update the config if I so choose (you know, normal ssh key related tasks).
However, any time I have tried to move my existing SSH key over to the ~/.ssh directory, or open it, or even create a config file I just get the following error (in either gitbash, puttygen, etc...):
Puttygen (saving the key to disk):
Overwrite existing file C:\Users\me\.ssh?
or in gitbash (attempting to do anything, including just create the config file):
touch: creating `/c/Users/me/.ssh/config': No such file or directory
cd ~/.ssh
sh.exe": cd: /c/Users/me/.ssh: Not a directory
What am I missing/not understanding?
Kind Regards,
u353
This answer for Windows environment:
At the beginning, Windows didn't have .ssh folder.
Create an ssh key file pair like this (ssh-keygen is nowadays a native Windows command, that comes with Windows 10+11):
ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "your_email#example.com" (must run your terminal as administrator).
Your is_rsa and id_rsa.pub files will be placed under C:\Users\your_username\
So, you need to create the folder C:\Users\your_username\.ssh then copy your ssh files (the extensionless private key and the public key ending in .pub) to there.
You also have to create file C:\Users\your_username\.ssh\config and edit it for the first time.
Next ssh will be placed in the .ssh folder automatically.
Note: ~/ under Linux is the equivalent of C:\Users\your_username\ on Windows
I have created and regularly use a ".ssh" directory on Windows 7; as mentioned in the above comments, Windows Explorer doesn't support them, or more specifically, the error-checking in Windows Explorer does not allow you to give a file name that starts with a period. That same restriction does not exist in the command prompt or powershell.
Also, as mentioned above, it appears you have a file called ".ssh" in your home directory, which must be removed before you can create a folder named ".ssh".
Once such a folder exists, you can open it and change/create files in it using Windows Explorer; it just won't let you name a folder/file ".ssh" directly.
Gitbash should directly allow you to run "rm .ssh" and "mkdir .ssh", at which point everything else should work.
It is quite possible to add a . in the beginning of a directories name using File Explorer, it can be easily done by adding a . at the end of the directory name as well. For example:
To create a directory named .shh, just add the name as .ssh. and it will be created without any error.
And as #Bryson mentioned, this can be done from the cli as well, without appending a . at the end.
Coming to this in 2018, given that on Windows 10 you have the Optional Feature OpenSSH client installed it appears that on Windows a .ssh folder is created for you under C:\Users\<your_username>\.ssh
This is a feature that allows you to use PowerShell to SSH into remote hosts, and seems to be pretty similar in usage to the Linux/Unix equivalent. It was already installed for me when I setup my computer, but you can read the following for how to verify it's installed or install it:
You can check if it's installed by going to Settings -> Manage Optional Features, and then checking if you see OpenSSH in the list. If it is then your .ssh folder is probably in your home directory C:\Users\<your_username>\.ssh. If you need to install it then click "Add a feature", locate OpenSSH Client, click it and click install to install it.
Use git bash on windows
go to home directory as
$ cd
then to check .ssh folder on home directory use
$ ls -A
you will be able to see a ./ssh folder there
$ cd ./ssh
$ ls
you will be able to see the config files if exists
To transfer any key-pair or any files to this folder use below command
First to that directory in which you already have key-pair
$ cp name_of_key-pair_file.pem ~/.ssh/
First of all, if you want to generate SSH files, all you need to do is run this command:
ssh-keygen
Once you did, .ssh folder will be generated in this path:
C:\Users\your_username\
For checking what files are in .ssh folder you can easily run this command:
ls ~/.ssh
with this above command, you can see all your ssh files which would be like this:
id_rsa id-rsa.pub
Please note that:
id_rsa : It's a private file and
id-rsa.pub : It's a public file
so, if you like to see inside of that file or whatever you like just type this command :
cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
To solve this problem I used git batsh console
This isn't supported as Windows doesn't recognize dot files as directories.
Related
I have to delete a directory with a large number of files on a GoDaddy server.
The hosting plan only gives me SFTP access without any in-browser file manager. So right-clcik delete folder is not an option.
So, I am using FileZilla to delete the folder and so far it has taken about 5 hours still a long way to go.
Is there any quicker way to delete the folder?
EDIT: No SSH.
Yes, the alternative way is through SSH, but you might have to do it from a terminal or putty if you're on Windows.
On Linux:
Open terminal
Type ssh your_username#your_server_domain_or_ip -p your_port_number then press enter
Enter your password (same as sftp passsword)
Navigate to the directory above want to remove using the cd command.
Say you're in /home/jorge/ but and you want to remove /home/jorge/pictures_folder , type in rm -rf pictures_folder
On Windows:
Download and install Putty!
Open putty and select SSH as the connection type and fill in your host/ip, port etc.. and click the Open button.
Enter your password when it asks for it.
Navigate to the directory above want to remove using the cd command on the terminal.
Say you're in /home/jorge/ but and you want to remove /home/jorge/pictures_folder , type in rm -rf pictures_folder
I am using ssh to work on a remote server, however when I try to download a file using scp in this format:
scp name#website.com:somefile.zip ~/Desktop
It asks me for my password, and shows this:
somefile.zip 100% 6491 6.3KB/s 00:00
however, this file never appears on my desktop. Any help
I think that you are logging into the remote machine using ssh and then running the command on the remote machine. You should actually be running the command without logging into your remote server first.
You need to specify the file path
scp name#website.com:/path/to/somefile.zip ~/Desktop
~/Desktop should actually be a directory, not a file. I suggest that you do the following:
Remove the ~/Desktop file with rm ~/Desktop (or move it with mv if you want to keep its contents).
Create the directory with mkdir ~/Desktop.
Try again to scp the zip file.
BTW, when I need to copy files into directories, I usually put a slash after the directory to avoid such problems (in case I make a mistake), e.g. scp server:file ~/Desktop/; if the directory doesn't exist, I get an error instead of unwanted file creation.
You are doing this from a command line, and you have a working directory for that command line (on your local machine), this is the directory that your file will be downloaded to. The final argument in your command is only what you want the name of the file to be. So, first, change directory to where you want the file to land. I'm doing this from git bash on a Windows machine, so it looks like this:
cd C:\Users\myUserName\Downloads
Now that I have my working directory where I want the file to go:
scp -i 'c:\Users\myUserName\.ssh\AWSkeyfile.pem' ec2-user#xx.xxx.xxx.xxx:/home/ec2-user/IwantThisFile.tar IgotThisFile.tar
Or, in your case, (that is with the VERY strong password you must be using):
cd ~/Desktop
scp name#website.com:/path/to/somefile.zip somefile.zip
I am using cygwin and I am trying to set up an .ssh/config file. Cygwin's folder is in my C: drive. My Home directory is C:\Users\USER. I have noticed that when I edit C:\Users\USER.ssh\config, cygwin does not even notice it (even though it notices the other files I have in my USER folder, i.e. .bashrc). But it does notice the config file if I put it in C:\cygwin64\home\USER.ssh\config.
Is there a way to get cygwin to read the .ssh folder in my USER home directory instead?
Make sure your home directory setup in /etc/passwd matches /home/ Often it is not set at all (second to last field in the ':' delimited line. Then you'll need to restart your cygwin session (exit the terminal, and restart)
That should fix your problem.
This isn't the greatest solution but it works:
ln -s /cygdrive/c/Users/username/.ssh /home/username/.ssh
If /home/username/.ssh already exists, perhaps rename it to .ssh_original or move the files into the other .ssh folder.
I used SSH to connect to a server and navigate to the folder where I want to store some files from my Mac. I think what I need to do is use SCP to do the copy but I'm not sure exactly about the terminology in the command parameters. And so far everything I've tried gets some sort of "not found" error.
Before logging on to the server the prompt is :
Apples-MacBook-Pro-2:~ neiltayl$
After logging in and navigating to the folder I want to store things in it is :
[neiltayl#cs136 Tracer]$
I need to copy several files from the Tracer folder on my local computer to the Tracer folder on cs136 and cannot fathom the correct parts of the respective FROM and TO parts of SCP to make it work.
This is the nearest I got so far;
Apples-MacBook-Pro-2:~ neiltayl$ ls
Applications Downloads Music Tracer
Desktop Library Pictures c151
Documents Movies Public dwhelper
Apples-MacBook-Pro-2:~ neiltayl$ scp ./Tracer/*.* neiltayl#cs136.cs.iusb.edu:Tracer
neiltayl#cs136.cs.iusb.edu's password:
./Tracer/*.*: No such file or directory
The scp command is -
$ scp File1 username#someting:DIRNAME
Here File 1 is the file that you are sending over to the other computer.
DIRNAME is the path to the directory where you want the file to be stored.
In your case the command would be
scp -r Tracer neiltayl#cs136:New_Tracer
Here Tracer is the folder that contains all the files that you want to copy.
I run git push -u origin master
It tells me that "Permission denied (public key) fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly"
Then I looked up on the internet and found that I had to generate an ssh key for my account on GitHub. However, upon doing so, when I tried to do ssh-keygen -t rsa "email#youremail.com" it simply said ssh-keygen is not recognized. I tried doing mkdir C:\ssh but that didn't work. If it helps I'm using Ruby Rails and I'm on a Windows computer. Could anyone help me?
2012:
ssh-keygen.exe is part of msysgit:
C:\path\to\msysgit1.7.11\bin\ssh-keygen.exe
if your %PATH% includes C:\path\to\msysgit1.7.11\bin\, you will have ssh-keygen.
Update 2015:
ssh-keygen.exe is part of Git For Windows, whose releases include PortableGit-2.4.3.1-2nd-release-candidate-64-bit.7z
c:\path\to\PortableGit-2.4.3.1-2nd-release-candidate-64-bit\usr\bin\ssh-keygen.exe
That means the %PATH% must include c:\path\to\PortableGit-2.4.3.1-2nd-release-candidate-64-bit\usr\bin (without the ssh-keygen.exe)
As I explained before, Git for Windows will soon phase out msysgit.
I detailed in "Why is it that if you download Git 2.0 from the net, you always get a 1.9.4 installer package?" how this new version is based on the more recent msys2 project.
I just had this issue and thought I'd share what I thought was an easier way around this.
Open git-bash and run the same command with the addition of -C since you're commenting in your email address: ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "email#youremail.com" command. That's it.
git-bash should have been installed when you installed git. If you can't find it you can check C:\Program Files\Git\Git Bash
The first time I did this it failed to create the .ssh folder for me so I had to open a standard Command Prompt and mkdir C:\Users\yourusername\.ssh
I followed below in windows (With Git for Windows installed)
Run "Git Gui" (Start --> Git --> Git Gui)
Click Help and then Show SSH Key
Click Generate Key if you do not have one already
Note:- this creates the key files under your personal profile folder C:\Users\YourUserID\.ssh\
No need to add anything to environmental variables! Just open up git bash and perform command the ssh-keygen in there.
Link to download git bash here
I found an easy solution to fix this :
In the command prompt, go to your git\bin directory,
and then execute your commands from here
If you have installed Git, and is installed at C:\Program Files, follow as below
Go to "C:\Program Files\Git"
Run git-bash.exe, this opens a new window
In the new bash window, run "ssh-keygen -t rsa -C""
It prompts for file in which to save key, dont input any value - just press enter
Same for passphrase (twice), just press enter
id_rsa and id_rsa.pub will be generated in your home folder under .ssh
Just go to heroku.bat and add:
#SET PATH="D:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin";%PATH% after #SET PATH=%HEROKU_RUBY%;%PATH%
in my case it's in D:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin, change it to the path you've installed Git to. (i just left it with my path so it will be clearer on how to write this)
I think you can add the location of the file ssh-keygen.exe in the PATH environment variable. Follow the steps: Go to My Computer->Right click->Properties->Advanced System Settings->Click Environmental Variables. Now click PATH and then click EDIT. In the variable value field, go to the end and append ';C:\path\to\msysgit1.7.11\bin\ssh-keygen.exe' (without quotes)
don't do anything just type in your command prompt
C:\> sh
then you got like this
sh-4.4$
# type here
ssh-4.4$ ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "example#example.com"
this should must work.
For windows you can add this:
SET PATH="C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin";%PATH%
You probably should check this. Windows doesn't have that command built in.
I got it fixed by just adding ssh-keygen to my environment variables.
for those who does not choose BASH HERE option. type sh in cmd then they should have ssh-keygen.exe accessible
In my machine, ssh-keygen was available from powershell.