Mar 19, 2025 · With ssh -i <private key filename> you can instruct ssh to use an extra private key to try authentication. The documentation is not clear on how to explicitly use only that key.

Mar 31, 2023 · Is there a way to get a file from a remote server you are connected to via ssh, by simply running a command like get file within the ssh session? Is there a method, or pre …

chmod 400 ~/.ssh/id_rsa 600 appears to be better in most cases, because you don't need to change file permissions later to edit it. (See the comments for more nuances) The relevant …

May 25, 2020 · Now I already have a config file set up in the .ssh folder which I copied over from the last machine. The file looks as such: Host server Hostname 0.0.0.0 User david IdentityFile …

Now I want to use multiple ssh keys (so my key will get the name "id_rsa_test", so how do I configure the .ssh/config file under Windows, that it works with a usual git server? The most …

A rather unusual situation perhaps, but I want to specify a private SSH-key to use when executing a shell (git) command from the local computer. Basically like this: git clone …

Apr 1, 2020 · How do I set the host name and port in a config file for Windows, using OpenSSH through PowerShell? As on Unix/Linux: Edit or create the file now by typing: nano …

First I am fairly new to SSH. From this question I have seen the need and benefit of setting up an SSH config file. While I was doing my research I noticed that there is a lot to know on SSH and ...

Apr 21, 2020 · My question: Does Windows' OpenSSH have such a file? If it does - where is it located? And if it doesn't - how do you configure it other than through the command-line? …

I want to download a file from an active SSH session. In many cases I probably could just use SFTP, scp, rsync et al but there are times where I have elevated permissions on the remote …