Tag Archives: ssh

Integrating SSH PKI with Active Directory using PBIS-Open on Ubuntu 16.04

Posted on January 4, 2018 by Ahmed Tawfik

Long Article Warning! You can skip all this and go directly to the script at the end. This resolves the dilemma of managing SSH public keys on servers that are integrated with Active Directory using PBIS-Open, it allows you to … Continue reading →

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Multi-hop SSH Connection

Posted on August 12, 2016 by Ahmed Tawfik

The case is as follows: You have a server, let’s name it “server2” that you need to SSH to, but unfortunately this server is not directly accessible, as you can SSH to it only through another server, let’s call it … Continue reading →

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How to connect to a VM hosted on QEMU remotely using virt-viewer

Posted on December 17, 2014 by Ahmed Tawfik

I couldn’t find comprehensive articles about this, so I decided to write one myself. In brief, here is a sample command: virt-viewer –connect qemu+ssh://aamr@hobba/system winVM Where: virt-viewer: is the command itself –connect: is obviously the parameter telling the command to … Continue reading →

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Password-less SSH Login to Ubuntu Server

Posted on December 12, 2014 by Ahmed Tawfik

On the client: ========================================================================================= socrat@socrat-laptop ~/.ssh $ ssh-keygen Generating public/private rsa key pair. Enter file in which to save the key (/home/socrat/.ssh/id_rsa): Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase): Enter same passphrase again: Your identification has been saved in /home/socrat/.ssh/id_rsa. Your … Continue reading →

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Limit a Local System User Access to a Certain Folder when using SFTP on Linux (and disable SSH for him as well)

Posted on November 21, 2012 by Ahmed Tawfik

This situation might face a lot of us, if you have a certain file you want to share on your system using SFTP, but you don’t want that user to be able to: login via SSH and run any commands … Continue reading →

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