Have a Linux server with OpenAFS and access to / files.
Access is read-only and like user privileges (ex. can read /etc/passwd, but can't read /etc/shadow).
It possible to run command? With /bin/bash for example?
And, on server have sshd service, but don't have rights to /root/.ssh/id_rsa
Any ideas?
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I'm unable to ssh into my EC2 instance, seems to be an issue with the permission level of the ssh .pem file I'm passing to ssh, googling around this seems to be a problem many others have faced but their solutions didn't work for me.
Here is what I tried, someone please help...
Atempt 1:
asemani$ ssh -i ~/.ssh/secure.pem root#54.210.0.1
********************************************************************************
This is a private computer system containing information that is proprietary
and confidential to the owner of the system. Only individuals or entities
authorized by the owner of the system are allowed to access or use the system.
Any unauthorized access or use of the system or information is strictly
prohibited.
All violators will be prosecuted to the fullest extent permitted by law.
********************************************************************************
###########################################################
# WARNING: UNPROTECTED PRIVATE KEY FILE! #
###########################################################
Permissions 0777 for '.ssh/secure.pem' are too open.
It is required that your private key files are NOT accessible by others.
This private key will be ignored.
Load key ".ssh/secure.pem": bad permissions
Permission denied (publickey).
Attempt 2:
asemani$ chmod 600 ~/.ssh/secure.pem
asemani$ ls -l ~/.ssh/
total 56
-rw-r--r-- 1 asemani CORP\Domain Users 782 Apr 29 11:14 config
-rw-------# 1 asemani CORP\Domain Users 1696 Apr 29 21:32 secure.pem
asemani$
asemani$ ssh -i .ssh/secure.pem root#54.210.0.1
********************************************************************************
This is a private computer system containing information that is proprietary
and confidential to the owner of the system. Only individuals or entities
authorized by the owner of the system are allowed to access or use the system.
Any unauthorized access or use of the system or information is strictly
prohibited.
All violators will be prosecuted to the fullest extent permitted by law.
********************************************************************************
Permission denied (publickey).
I don't get the warning anymore but Permission is still denied. I then also tried doing a chmod 400 on the .pem file but that also didn't work. I won't paste that here since that may be overkill.
What is happening here? How can I ssh into my ec2? This should be a simple thing??
Change permission to chmod 400 ~/.ssh/secure.pem
Are you able to login as the default user using your pem key? For Ubuntu instances, default user should be ubuntu; for most other instances it should be ec2-user. If you're able to login as the default user, chances are that root isn't allowed for ssh login. To change that, login as the default user and do the following:
# Edit sshd_config and modify 'PermitRootLogin XX' to 'PermitRootLogin yes'
sudo vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config
# Reload sshd configuration
sudo service sshd reload
NOTE: This only serves as a how-to. It's generally not recommended to allow root login over ssh for security reason.
You need to launch the instance through your AWS EC2 management console. Once it is launched, copy the public DNS IPv4 and paste it after the linux distribution name being used (e.g. ubuntu#IPv4). Also, make sure you are working in the directory that houses your private access key.
For clarification, once your EC2 instance is launched and you're in the directory that holds your private access key, type in the following in the command-line:
ssh -i private_access_key.pem linux#IPv4
to windows users can change the premise of files through wsl doing this:
Edit or create (using sudo) /etc/wsl.conf
[automount]
options = "metadata"
Restart wsl: (powershell)
PS Get-Service LxssManager | Restart-Service
and finally, do:
chmod 400 key.pem
I am new to linux world. So please excuse for any stupid questions.
I have a linux machine and I don’t have root access. I have service account which have full access to app folder. My login (ssh) credentials don’t have access to that app folder.
So I will follow the below process.
1) Copy the app folder in windows machine to /tmp/ in linux using winscp.
2) Login to the machine using putty.
3) Change the user to service account using below command.
sudo su – “service account”
4) Then I will copy app files from /tmp/ folder to /app/ folder and start the other configurations.
I want to automate the above process. So for I did below.
#Copy files to tmp folder
winscp.com -hostkey=* user:"password"#host /command "put D:/app_folder/ /tmp/ app_folder"
#Execute the script remotely
plink user:#host -m D:\Install_app.sh
The above script is running fine until I run test echo commands. It is started throwing errors when I run configuration commands due to user don’t have access to app folder. Only service account has access. But service account doesn’t have remote login access. So I can’t run the script with service account.
So I tried to run commands inside the script with service account. I tried below
Echo “password” | sudo –S su - “service account” “commands”
It is not working. Could you please let me know is there any other way to achieve this. I want to change user inside the script, once script start executing.
Note: The process is following by linux admin team due to security reason. So I can’t change the process :(.
I have a file on my desktop that I need to FTP to a server. As I've been navigating this server, I need to login with initial credentials to access the box and then needed to run sudo -u [username] ksh to access the folder I need. (No password)
In Filezilla however, I only enter credentials once and therefore, don't have the option to sudo as the user and get permissions to the folder.
Am I going about this process wrong and if so, what's the usual way to do this?
There is no way to switch user on the ftp protocol. You need to know the correct credentials in the first place.
The closest you could come would be to ftp the files to a directory you do have access to, log in with a shell, and then move the files using shell commands after switching user.
I am trying to connect to a new user account I created via SSH with the command
useradd -s /bin/false -d /home/username james
I added/edited the password via SSH with the command
passwd james
When trying to connect to my server using this user and pass via FileZilla I get the following error messages.
Response: 331 User James OK. Password required
Command: PASS *****
Response: 530 Login authentication failed
Error: Critical error
Error: Could not connect to server
When I try to login with this user/pass through SFTP I get the following error messages
Status: Connected to domain.com
Error: Connection closed by server with exitcode 1
Error: Could not connect to server
Either way it seems it doesn't allow me to use this newuser anywhere.
My server details
Linux 2.6.18-308.11.1.el5 GNU/Linux
(Red Hat 4.1.2-52)
Centos
Regarding FTP, the FTP server commonly used on Linux systems requires users to have a shell that's listed in the file /etc/shells. For example, this online ftpd man page says that, among other things, "The user must have a standard shell returned by getusershell(3).". The page for getusershell() shows that it reads shells from /etc/shells.
You could probably make FTP work adding /bin/false to /etc/shells. Your Linux system might have a more suitable shell available, like /usr/sbin/nologin.
Regarding SFTP, the ssh server normally provides SFTP service by by invoking a program called sftp-server. If you examine the server's sshd_config file, you'll probably find a line like this:
Subsystem sftp /usr/lib/openssh/sftp-server
sshd runs the subsystem program as a shell command, using the user's shell. If you set the user's shell to /bin/false, then sshd ends up running the command:
/bin/false -c /usr/lib/openssh/sftp-server
/bin/false ignores its command-line arguments and exits with code 1, so the SFTP client's session drops immediately after it starts.
sshd has an internal SFTP server component that can be used instead of the external program. The usual way of limiting SSH access to SFTP for some users is to set up a Match group within sshd_config, forcing the internal-sftp command for certain classes of users. Here are a couple examples of that:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/OpenSSH/Cookbook/SFTP#SFTP-only_Accounts
https://serverfault.com/questions/354615/allow-sftp-but-disallow-ssh
Dont use "-s /bin/false". Use "-s /sbin/nologin" instead and it should be fine.
Make sure your account password hasn't expired. Mine did, and Filezilla exited with error code 1.
After logging onto the server and updating the account password (prompted immediately after connecting), I am now able to connect with SFTP & Filezilla.
Probably is a password related issue, check account
chage -l <user>
account must not be expired.
FTP doesn't allow /usr/sbin/nologin user
Response: 220 Welcome to the Scent Library's File Service.
Command: USER ftpuser
Response: 331 Please specify the password.
Command: PASS ******
Response: 530 Login incorrect.
filezilla 530 error - but password is correct
vsftpd: 530 Login incorrect
530 Login or password incorrect!
How can I connect via FTP using FileZilla? I get a 530 error.
Response: 220 Welcome to Test FTP service.
Command: USER ftpuser
Response: 331 Please specify the password.
Command: PASS ******
Response: 530 Login incorrect.
Error: Critical error
Error: Could not connect to server
Change user's shell
usermod -s /usr/sbin/nologin username
Then edit "/etc/shells" file and add this line
/usr/sbin/nologin
In order to connect to the server using ftp, you also need to run a ftp server / service or daemon.
An example of such ftp server is "vsftpd"
After installing it, you will also need to configure it and allow anonymous ftp access or ftp access to existing users
You will find the configuration file in the path "/etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf"
The below link might be useful for you --
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-vsftpd-on-centos-6--2
I'm trying to run a psexec command to a remote Windows Server 2003 machine. I run the following command:
psexec \machinename perfmon.msc -u machineadmin -p adminpassword -i -s
The -i and -s flags will allow me to run the GUI for perfmon.msc on the remote machine's desktop interactively.
I get the following error when I try to run the above command:
Couldn't Access machinename
Access denied
I'm using psexec version 1.94 and I'm certain that the machinename, user, and password are correct. Does anyone know if there are known issues with psexec on Windows Server 2003 and whether or not there is a fix?
[This question would be better fit for ServerFault.com, but nevertheless...]
A few suggestions:
Use two slashes before the machinename e.g. \\machinename (maybe that's what you meant the StackOverflow escaped the backslash)
*.MSC files are not usually directly executable remotely--you'll want to give the path to "c:\WINDOWS\system32\mmc.exe" and then the parameters
All parameters for psexec should go before the remote program and its parameters.
Is there really a reason to run the process as the System account ('-s') instead of just Administrator?
All together, it should look something like this:
psexec \\machinename -i -u machineadmin -p adminpassword "c:\WINDOWS\system32\mmc.exe" "perfmon.msc"
Are you connecting as an admin to the remote machine? The error says 'access denied'. You may not have the necessary privileges. Try connecting as an admin.