http://vpsbible.com/forums/forum/remote-access Setup Unmanaged VPS for Linux Noobs! en-US Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:07:40 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://vpsbible.com/forums/search.php http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/app-always-running#post-2752 Mon, 02 Jan 2012 12:06:54 +0000 xere 2752@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>Hi, I am new. First, my history: I have a Wndows VPS because I should keep running a trading windows application continuosly, auto-scanning the stock market and so on... But a Windows VPS is expensive, more than a Linux one. I have done some research with Virtual Box, creating an Ubuntu machine, installing some apps as a lightweight graphical environment, a VNC server, ssh server, wine and the trading app, with a minimal RAM consumption.<br /> My question is: I need to keep running the VPS (adding the needed apps at the autostart) 24 hours/day and 365 days/year. But if I start a Putty session with an admin user (that is, a ssh session), when I close Putty, the session ends and the VPS stop?<br /> Then, I thought that a solution maybe, that I arrange the VPS for autologin, and just share the desktop via VNC (tightvnc, by instance) when I would see what is happening. Is this idea right, or are there another ways to do it? Thanks. </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/how-to-give-sftp-user-specific-access-to-a-directory#post-2448 Wed, 20 Jul 2011 02:35:53 +0000 R. Anthony Solis 2448@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>I have some clients who are developers and like to get into the folders via SFTP. Well actually FTP but I won't let them. :)</p> <p>How can I limit the SFTP user to their website directory only? Don't want them messing with the other websites.</p> <p>Ant </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/permission-denied-1#post-2534 Thu, 18 Aug 2011 06:36:36 +0000 robertjakobson 2534@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>Hi, I am simply trying to create a new user, other than the root, with adduser and I can create one and use it with "su - newuser" but when I try to login into it from my Mac Terminal using newuser@ip I get the "Permission Denied" error, after having entered the password. </p> <p>What on earth could be the problem, does anybody know? </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/mac-versions-of-putty-pagent-winscp#post-2301 Wed, 22 Jun 2011 12:22:53 +0000 Ben 2301@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>Howdy</p> <p>I'm now swapping my computing needs onto a Mac and I'm looking for Mac equivalent apps for:</p> <p>Putty<br /> Pagent<br /> WinScp</p> <p>So far, tried CyberDuck &amp; Fugu but havnt been able to get on with them. I love WinSCP - it's made SFTP'ing very easy - especially the sync folders button!</p> <p>Does the mac terminal act like putty? Not been able to get connected (probably due to access keys looking at that other thread on here).</p> <p>Any pointers would be very much appreciated - as I have Win7 on dualboot, but aiming to leave windows forever :)</p> <p>Ben. </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/adding-the-ssh-keypair-in-os-x#post-1712 Mon, 29 Nov 2010 05:08:09 +0000 Jeremy Rollinson 1712@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>As I'm a mac user I needed to deviate from the Bible in order to set up a private/public keypair.</p> <p>It's not that hard, just a few things to change.</p> <p>First thing I did was follow the instruction son this page; <a href="http://kb.siteground.com/article/How_to_generate_an_SSH_key_pair_in_Mac_OS.html" rel="nofollow">http://kb.siteground.com/article/How_to_generate_an_SSH_key_pair_in_Mac_OS.html</a></p> <p>Then follow the rest of the tutorial (here @ VPS Bible) to copy your public key. You'll need to open the generated id_dsa.pub on your mac and copy the contents into the "authorized_keys" file on your VPS. </p> <p>I've never really graduated past vi (sorry Olly) so I won't put all the steps up here.</p> <p>I followed the steps to harden up the .ssh directories/files, exited the ssh session, re-opened it;</p> <p>ssh username@servername</p> <p>I was then prompted to enter the passphrase I used when generating the key locally on my mac and bingo...I'm in. On to the rest of the tutorial......</p> <p>JR </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/sftp-connects-but-new-non-root-user-cant-uploadedit-files#post-2228 Tue, 31 May 2011 23:13:02 +0000 jb 2228@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>I followed the VPSbible--created my non-root user, created public/private keys and set this all up in Cyberduck on Mac (connecting to Debian 6.0.) It connects great and I can see all the files. However, I can't edit/create/delete files.</p> <p>Should I re-enable root user to use just for SFTP? Or how do I give my user privileges to create/edit/delete files and folders via SFTP?</p> <p>Thanks </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/create-users-with-ftp-rights-to-public-folder#post-2217 Thu, 26 May 2011 21:33:15 +0000 Erik Lauraeus 2217@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>User www-data has ownership of wp-content folder in order to be able to upload imges and plugins.</p> <p>Is there à way to share the write permission for other idets via ftp? </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/pam-yes#post-2181 Thu, 28 Apr 2011 18:43:11 +0000 Cynthia Freyer 2181@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>I'm connecting to Linode VPN from different computers at different locations so I am using Tunnelier/password (with SSH server host keys). As I'm a noob, I'm wondering if UsePam should be set to 'yes' rather than 'no' as insructed by the vpsbible? Course I can test it but I figured I'd lock myself out if I'm right. </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/tunnelier#post-2165 Tue, 12 Apr 2011 00:08:19 +0000 Cynthia Freyer 2165@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>I am curious as to why you don't encourage use of Tunnelier rather than Putty. SSH with key exchange in a nice secure tunnel is all built-in..none of the fussing around in CLI is needed. So much easier and faster. Plus, it's free. Anyway, just a thought. </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/mysql-workbench-and-remote-access-with-ssh#post-2004 Sat, 19 Feb 2011 18:19:18 +0000 Gary Robar 2004@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>Guv, do you have any tutorials on how to get that set up? I have SSH set up from my windows machine to my linode and it works great from the cmd line and with FileZilla/ftp, but I can't seem to use it with Mysql and MySQL workbench.</p> <p>CAn you point me in the right direction? </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/how-do-i-remove-site-folder#post-2080 Mon, 14 Mar 2011 22:42:48 +0000 shelley corbin 2080@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>hello! i added 10 web sites on my vps server. everything went good except when i first added one of my sites, i made the mistake of not seeing a space in the line<br /> sudo mkdir -p /home/myname1/public_html/ co-----home.com/{backup,cgi-bin,log,private,public}<br /> (a space right before co------home.com) and instead of going into the public folder, it went into the main folder.<br /> /home/myname/co-----home.com</p> <p>i later corrected the space type and a site folder correctly went to the public folder. </p> <p>/home/myname/public_html/co------home.com</p> <p>but i dont know how to erase the site folder /home/myname/co-----home.com?<br /> i cant remove it in filezilla. i dont know the command line instructions. </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/filezilla-error-no-supported-authentication-methods-available#post-2056 Thu, 10 Mar 2011 22:54:17 +0000 Pooya 2056@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>I can't connect to my linode vps with filezilla... it gives me this error:</p> <p>Disconnected: No supported authentication methods available<br /> Error: Could not connect to server</p> <p>host , port ,user , pass all are correct.<br /> i need help please... </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/cant-login-with-any-other-users#post-1827 Mon, 17 Jan 2011 02:25:02 +0000 Joe 1827@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>Hey Guv, I want to be able to login with root access so I went back into the /etc/ssh/sshd_config and reset some of the settings. Then restarted and ssh. However none of the settings changes seem to take effect and no matter what I do I can't login with root, or even other users that I create in addition to the first one created as show in these tutorials. Thanks, Joe </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/add-new-user-who-can-only-use-sftp#post-1103 Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:29:26 +0000 Anonymous 1103@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>Hi all</p> <p>Can anyone give me some detailed instructions on how to add a new user and for them to be only use SFTP (not ssh) and only be allowed access (r+w) in a particular direcotry (public_html)?</p> <p>Am using Ubuntu and Nginx</p> <p>Thanks </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/rsync-ssh-syntax#post-1315 Wed, 04 Aug 2010 16:22:34 +0000 Barnaby 1315@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>I know the guvnr is going to write a tut on this but, in the meantime, can anyone tell me the syntax for getting rsync to work over ssh?</p> <p>I want to run this from my local machine, have it go to the vps, log in, grab the directories, transfer them to my local machine and delete anything from local that isn't on the vps.</p> <p>After having Googled this for hours the other day, I came up with the following:</p> <p>rsync -ave --times --delete ssh -p 54321 <a href="mailto:vpsuser@12.34.56.78">vpsuser@12.34.56.78</a>:/home/vpsuser/testdir /home/localuser/Desktop/</p> <p>(Of course, I used the correct usernames, ip and port number)</p> <p>It doesn't work. The error is: syntax or usage error.</p> <p>What's wrong with the code? </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/how-to-connect-via-sftp-using-nautilus#post-1252 Wed, 28 Jul 2010 23:13:44 +0000 Barnaby 1252@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>Use Ubuntu as your local OS?<br /> Here's how to connect to your VPS via SFTP using Nautilus.</p> <p>On the main menubar, click Places then Connect to Server</p> <p>Complete the details as follows:</p> <p>Service type: SSH<br /> Server: your ip address<br /> Port: your custom port number<br /> Folder: leave blank for access to the entire directory structure or specify a path.<br /> User Name: your account user name.</p> <p>Add bookmark: check this if you want to add the connection to your Nautilus bookmarks<br /> Bookmark name: Give it a name.</p> <p>Click Connect and, hey presto!, Nautilus opens showing your remote directories.</p> <p>Drap and drop to upload and download.</p> <p>To disconnect: Using the Nautilus places view, click the eject button next to your connection name.</p> <p>To connect: Using the Nautilus places view, click the bookmark you created. </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/wpmu-upgrades#post-1052 Mon, 21 Jun 2010 10:59:34 +0000 parkerj 1052@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>I am using wpmu, and I installed vsftpd in order to log in to do plugin upgrades. However, when I try to do an upgrade, I receive the following errors:</p> <p>Updating plugin 1 of 10...</p> <p>Downloading update from <a href="http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/advertising-manager.3.4.19.zip." rel="nofollow">http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/advertising-manager.3.4.19.zip.</a></p> <p>Unpacking the update.</p> <p>Could not create directory /home/public_html/mulyoo.com/public/wp-content/upgrade/advertising-manager.tmp</p> <p>Updating plugin 2 of 10...</p> <p>Downloading update from <a href="http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/cd-bp-avatar-bubble.0.9.1.zip." rel="nofollow">http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/cd-bp-avatar-bubble.0.9.1.zip.</a></p> <p>Unpacking the update.</p> <p>Could not create directory /home/public_html/mulyoo.com/public/wp-content/upgrade/cd-bp-avatar-bubble.tmp</p> <p>I've tried changing permissions and ownership and have had no luck. Any suggestions is greatly appreciated. Thanks. </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/putty-fatal-error-connection-reset-by-peer#post-837 Mon, 24 May 2010 22:47:19 +0000 Benja 837@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>Hi folks! Ok just deployed another distro to play with stackscripts but i am very 'noobishly' stack getting to the new distro root with putty already installed on the local machine. I keep getting this 'Putty Fatal error- connection reset by peer' thingie. Can quite work out how to set up a new connection to a different distro on the VPS and IP.</p> <p>Please rescue this noob.</p> <p>Cheers </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/server-refused-our-key#post-815 Sat, 22 May 2010 13:33:46 +0000 richard cliffe 815@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>Hi I am trying to log into my vps using putty keys everytime i attempt to connect i get an error message "Server refused our key" I have gone through it 3 or 4 times and still get the same message. Any ideas??? </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/using-a-putty-rsa-key-on-a-linux-install#post-661 Wed, 05 May 2010 17:51:29 +0000 Kugelfisch 661@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>So here is my Problem:<br /> I generated a keypair with putty on windows.<br /> I can connect to my server and everything works fine.<br /> Now I wanted to use the private key to authenticate me from my ubuntu installation.</p> <p>This doesn't work correctly. When I try to authenticate myself with "ssh -p 22 username@host" I'm stuck on the Passphrase.<br /> I'm 100% sure that i entered the correct passphrase.<br /> I tried it again with a putty (emulated with wine) and it works fine.</p> <p>Is there a way to make the key usable with ssh too or am I stuck to putty? </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/agent-admitted-failure-to-sign-using-the-key#post-350 Wed, 31 Mar 2010 04:13:10 +0000 Anonymous 350@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>I'm using unbutu 9.10 on desktop to connect to 8.04 LTS server</p> <p>following this tutorial <a href="http://vpsbible.com/security/linux-linux-openssh/" rel="nofollow">http://vpsbible.com/security/linux-linux-openssh/</a></p> <p>I failed on the "Login Using Authentication Keys" part</p> <p>need help </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/root-ownership-upload-issues#post-336 Sun, 28 Mar 2010 23:35:20 +0000 Anonymous 336@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>i'm trying to upload something into the /etc/ folder and I can't because it's a root folder and it won't let me change the ownership of the specific folder. How do I go about being able to upload a file into something owned by root when I'm using the user I created following the bible steps.</p> <p>also, references sake, how can i just make it so I can log back in using root in general. I have a lot of work to do with file transfers and having to change ownerships all the time when I sftp is becoming a pain in the ass and I'm wasting so much time fighting with it and dealing with these types of permissions issues :(</p> <p>once all is said and done, i'll go back to the being more secure but in the meantime...argh :P </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/trying-to-log-into-psftp-closes-everytime#post-33 Fri, 26 Feb 2010 08:11:54 +0000 Anonymous 33@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>Hey Olly,<br /> I'm trying to log into psftp and I have pageant running. Everytime I type in "open USER", the program just closes out, i also tried the other method with the <a href="mailto:USER@domain.ltd">USER@domain.ltd</a>, did the same thing. Just wondering what might be the problem </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/putty-in-the-linux-guide#post-25 Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:42:32 +0000 Anonymous 25@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>Hi Guv,</p> <p>In "Harden the Secure Shell (SSH) &amp; Create a Firewall" for Linux, at the end you refer to PuTTY.<br /> Is there a corresponding Linux step here or can I safely ignore this? </p>