//Params to connect to a database $dbHost = “*static ip of wordpress site*”; This should be $dbHost = “localhost”; instead, or “127.0.0.1” (or even “::1”). localhost uses a separate virtual network interface that makes sure traffic between services on your Linux VM doesn’t leave the VM In general it’s safer to use localhost rather than … Read more
It turns out my key was not in the agent, and this fixed it: OS X: ssh-add -K Linux/Unix: ssh-add -k You can list loaded keys using: ssh-add -l ssh-add -L # for more detail
There are pro’s and con’s for either pw or key-based authentication. In some cases, for example, key-based authentication is less secure than password authentication. In other cases, its pw-based that’s less secure. In some cases, one is more convenient, in others, less. It all boils down to this: When you do key-based authentication, you must … Read more
Necromancing, but adding the following to your sshd_config should do the trick: Match User <username> PasswordAuthentication yes Match all Note that match is effective “until either another Match line or the end of the file.” (The indentation isn’t significant.)
Unfortunately not directly. rsync requires a clean link with a shell that will allow it to start the remote copy of rsync, when run this way. If you have some way of running long-lived listening processes on the host you could try starting rsync manually listening for connections on a non-privileged port, but most techniques … Read more
I was having a similar issue with Ansible ping on Vagrant, it just suddenly stuck for no reason and has previously worked absolutely fine. Unlike any other issue like ssh or connective issue, it just forever die with no timeout. One thing I did to resolve this issue is to clean ~/.ansible directory and it … Read more
I don’t see that anyone has spelled out the specific risk with SSH port forwarding in detail. If you are inside a firewall and have outbound SSH access to a machine on the public internet, you can SSH to that public system and in the process create a tunnel so that people on the public … Read more
From the man page: ChrootDirectory Specifies the pathname of a directory to chroot(2) to after authentication. All components of the pathname must be root-owned directories that are not writable by any other user or group. After the chroot, sshd(8) changes the working directory to the user’s home directory. My guess is one or more of … Read more
One of your login scripts (.bashrc/.cshrc/etc.) is probably outputting data to the terminal (when it shouldn’t be). This is causing ssh to error when it is connecting and getting ready to copy as it starts receiving extra data it doesn’t expect. Remove output that is generated in the startup scripts. You can check if your … Read more
The primary difference is the concept of interactivity. It’s similar to running commands locally inside of a script, vs. typing them out yourself. It’s different in that a remote command must choose a default, and non-interactive is safest. (and usually most honest) STDIN If a PTY is allocated, applications can detect this and know that … Read more