Unanswered Questions
7,991 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Is it possible to make WinSCP use my SSH config file?
I use SSH-based tools on Windows, which use configuration files in %HOME%\.ssh\.
Is it possible to make WinSCP use that configuration file too, so I only have to manage one configuration?
It's ...
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Attach to the same tmux session from different nodes of a cluster
I'm working on a computing cluster which has several hundreds of nodes. A load-balancing scheme picks an idle node to login to when ssh-ing into the cluster. As a result, it is very unlikely to re-...
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Why can’t I type during git clone PuTTY connection?
I want to clone git repo from CLI in Windows. When I'm executing:
git clone '...'
I am then getting:
The server's rsa2 key fingerprint is:
ssh-rsa blablabla
If you trust this ...
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Why is there no UDP port forwarding in SSH?
I know SSH can forward TCP ports, not UDP. I'm not seeking help to circumvent this restriction (this subject is covered here).
I'd like to know what is the reason SSH never got UDP forwarding ability....
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Is Xfce supposed to run slowly on Virtualbox?
I'm having problems getting Xfce systems on VirtualBox to run smoothly. What I mean by slow is that moving or resizing windows looks very "laggy" (basically just windows jumping from one ...
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How to prevent gnu screen capturing the mouse?
I want to use local scrollback on my terminal, whilst using gnu screen. That's because my network connection is incredibly slow, so using screen's scrollback is very slow. Local scrollback is much ...
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ssh randomly can connect, and sometimes "kex_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host"
Connecting to my server has never been a problem. But now I've added a mesh router in bridge mode to my regular router, and when I try to ssh to my server, sometimes it works fine, and other times ...
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Running Android Emulator with HAXM acceleration and VirtualBox in parallel on Windows
I am trying to understand if it is feasible to run the Android Emulator with HAXM-based acceleration and VirtualBox side by side on the same Windows host.
I have a Windows host running a 64 bit ...
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Moving mouse in iTerm causes characters to be to printed to prompt
I am having an issue with iTerm that happens to me intermittently. When I am using iTerm and I move the mouse up and down, or click a bunch of random characters are printed to the prompt:
I am in a ...
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How to run a raw-disk Virtualbox VM when using UEFI?
I have a dual-boot setup on my computer with Windows 10 and Linux (Arch, if relevant). I'm trying to virtualize my on-disk Linux install in Windows (and plan on doing the opposite direction once I ...
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VBoxManage: error: Cannot read the partition information from '/dev/disk0'
I'm trying to make a partition .vmdk file for Virtual Box. Basically I want to boot my bootcamp partition box up in Virtual Box. But I get the following error when I try to make the .vmdk file
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Shared connection frequently closes when opening a new connection
I'm making heavy use of reusing a shared connection which I open to a remote box at the beginning of my workday.
My .ssh/config looks somewhat like this:
ControlMaster auto
ControlPath ~/.ssh/...
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FreeSSHd + WinSCP: "Server refused public-key signature despite accepting key!"
I'm trying to gain access to my Windows 2008 R2 server via SSH. I have a Remote Desktop connection, but I need to upload my files to the server. For SSH servers on the Windows server, I've tried ...
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Bad Block on Virtual Machine (Virtual or Physical Problem?)
I am dealing with a virtual machine that is receiving the following entry in the event log:
TIME OF EVENT: 7/30/2011 3:47:05 PM EVENT LOG: System EVENT
SOURCE: disk EVENT ID: 7 SEVERITY: Error ...
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Pass VirtualBox Guest connections through proxy
The computer is inside a company and only have internet access through proxy. I want the guest inside the VirtualBox to access the internet without changing anything in the guest. The host is Windows ...
