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How do I enable Google Authenticator (TOTP) with SSH keys with a passphrase on Debian 12?

TL;DR: I ran google-authenticator when logged in as the root user. I should've run it as my normal user account instead. I have just installed Debian 12 on a spare Apple Mac Mini. I want to control it ...
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Changing or updating the passphrase in gcp lamp vm

I am trying to download files from a particular folder from one of my vm's on gcp using the following command gcloud compute scp --recurse VM_NAME:REMOTE_DIR LOCAL_DIR After running the command the ...
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Ansible - wrong passphrase - even if it has to be correct

i am running ansible modules/playbooks (for example ping) with this command by user, who have sudo rights: sudo ansible -m ping hosts "hosts" is group of 2 hosts. When i run this, i'm asked for ...
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Add ssh pass phrase after setup?

Can an ssh pass phrase added after ssh is already setup? I'm using Debian 8 stable Jessie 8.7. And how can you save it in Debian like in a keyring so you do not have to enter it everytime? Thanks to ...
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How to change GELI passphrase on FreeBSD 11 Root-On-ZFS system with mirror RAID?

How to change GELI passphrase on FreeBSD 11 Root-On-ZFS system with mirror RAID? Swap devices are also mirrored and ancrypted. I have /dev/ada0p5.eli /dev/ada1p5.eli and /dev/mirror/swap.eli devices....
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ssh enter passphrase one line

I want to execute a command via ssh but my server is using passphrase, I want to make one-line only without asking passphrase. ~# ssh -t root@dev5 'echo "tes" ; bash' Enter passphrase for key '/home/...
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remove empty passphrase from ssl key using openssl

I have an openssl key file encrypted with an empty passphrase. I'm trying to remove the passphrase using this command openssl rsa -in ca.key -out ca.key.clear I then try to enter the empty ...
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Cannot decrypt private key eventhough I know passphrase

I think my problem comes down to the fact something is wrong with the key but I cannot just decrypt it, for further investigation, with out parsing it. But I am not sure. I am trying to use standard ...
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Ubuntu 14.04 asking for pass phrase to unlock RSA key oddity.

Sorry for the obscure title but I have no idea how to phrase this.. I am having an oddity occurring with my RSA key, I use RSA key authentication over SSH for all my servers and other services where ...
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scp inside sh-script with passphrase

I've got a sh-script for a backup scp /mybackupdir/* backupuser@backupserver:/backup Is there an easy way to add a passphrase to the scp? Or do I have to check if an ssh-agent is running and if not ...
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Publishing id_rsa.pub for easier setup of new environments?

To make setting up passwordless SSH easier on new machines and environments, is there any reason why the id_rsa.pub file (just the public half of the key pair) could not be published somewhere on the ...
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SSL certificates with passphrase and service restart

Today, I'll gonna ask for something far less technical than usually. Indeed, it's more or less a rhetorical question, but I would love to read your advices on this topic. On my daily job, I have to ...
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SSH: prevent from asking for passphrase when ssh-agent auth fails

I am writing a script to cycle through a list a known hostnames so as to find a working SSH server on which I can auth with my SSH key. The key is already loaded with ssh-agent and ssh-add, so if I ...
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SSH - Putty Private Key and Passphrase

For giving remote access to a linux server, the administrator generated the public and private key pair probably using the Putty Key Generator and sent me the .ppk file. I loaded the .ppk file (having ...
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Is it possible to generate RSA key without pass phrase?

I'm working with Apache2 and Passenger for a Rails project. I would like to create a self-signed SSL Certificate for testing purposes. sudo openssl rsa -des3 -in server.key -out server.key.new ...
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