How To Enable SSH Login From OS X Yosemite 10.10.5 to macOS Ventura 13.3.1

Author: , May 19th, 2023

I was unable to login from my old iMac running Yosemite to my new iMac running Ventura using RSA keys. It turns out that RSA key support was disabled in Ventura. To correct the problem, I added the following two lines to the bottom of BOTH /etc/ssh/ssh_config and /etc/ssh/sshd_config on the Ventura side:

Be […]

How To Fix SSH Permission Denied From macOS Ventura To Amazon Linux

Author: , May 9th, 2023

I have been using RSA SSH keys forever to login to my various AWS EC2 instances. With macOS Ventura 13.3.1 ssh failed with the “Permission Denied” error. Using ssh -vvv, I saw that the RSA key was now being rejected. After much research, I decided to implement new keys on the client (Ventura) side using […]

How To Get rsync To Work With macOS Ventura – Getting Error “Operation not permitted”

Author: , May 5th, 2023

I have a new iMac running macOS Ventura 13.3.1. I tried to rsync some files from another host and got the following error:

In order to get rsync to have access to the hard drive in macOS Ventura, you need to add rsync and other programs to the Full Disk Access panel under Privacy […]

How To Get SSH Logins Working Again In macOS Ventura

Author: , February 24th, 2023

SSH login from older hosts running OS X Yosemite 10.10.5 to macOS Ventura 13.2.1 was not working. SSH failed with a “No hostkey alg” error. To correct the problem, I added the following two lines to the bottom of BOTH /etc/ssh/ssh_config and /etc/ssh/sshd_config on the Ventura side:

Be sure to stop and start Remote […]

How To Enable Legacy Key Type Support in SSH 7

Author: , December 9th, 2016

Recently I had to launch an Ubuntu instance in AWS because i needed to run alien to convert a .rpm into a .deb package. When I added my SSH keys as usual, I found I was still unable to login. This is the error from the /var/log/auth.log file: Dec 9 16:47:55 localhost sshd[1550]: userauth_pubkey: key […]

How To Configure SSHD To Listen On Multiple IP Addresses Only

Author: , August 26th, 2010

Simply specify one or more ListenAddress directives… Edit “/etc/ssh/sshd_config” and add one line per desired IP address: [code] ListenAddress 10.1.1.7 ListenAddress 172.16.1.82 ListenAddress 192.168.1.146 [/code] Then run “/etc/rc.d/sshd restart”.

How to Troubleshoot SSH on MacOSX

Author: , May 1st, 2010

I had some odd issues with slow login via ssh to my host. I looked in Console.app, but was not able to find anything relevant. So here is what I did: 1. System Preferences -> Sharing, Unchecked “Remote Login” 2. In Terminal, as root, ran /usr/sbin/sshd -ddd -e (3 d’s for debug level 3, -e […]