I'm currently using Windows Terminal to front WSL 2 Ubuntu. I use it to SSH out to multiple servers. I'm now at a point where I'd need to run similar \ identical tasks across multiple servers, so I'd like to be able to say Open a new pane and SSH to server Foo, Bar and FooBar. I've got the server config stored in .ssh/config and SSH key access sorted.
Is this possible? Using Powershell isn't an option thanks to overly restrictive IT policies and I'm not expecting much from the old CMD.
if you put this on the "actions": block in the windows terminal settings.json, it will add a keybinding that creates a tab with 3 ssh connections (will also create an entry on the command Pallet(ctrl+shift+p) called servers), you will have to type the commands in each one of them for now, but Windows terminal has a feature coming where you will be able to "broadcast" the keystrokes to multiple panes.
{
"command":
{
"action":"wt",
"commandline":"new-tab wsl ssh 'sv1';split-pane wsl ssh 'sv2';split-pane wsl ssh 'sv3'"
},
"keys":"alt+s",
"name":"servers"
},
docs:
actions
commandline args
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I connect to a server within Visual Studio Code using SSH ("Remote-SSH: Connect to Host..."). When working in the terminal within VS Code, the command code <file> results in opening the file in VS Code of the client (therefore on my screen). Now let's suppose I establish another SSH connection from the current session to a workstation within the network of the server using ssh <some workstation>. When I now try to open a file in VS Code using code <file>, nothing happens.
My questions are:
Since the last code <file> mentioned didn't open anything on my screen, is it possible that VS Code did open on any other screen connected to either the server or the workstation?
Is there any possibility to open the file within my VS Code?
As for your first question:
There's is NO WAY your action could have opened a window on any other screen than yours. For that to happen you'd have to "link" your ssh session to that screen, which would require a bunch of intermediary steps.
Now for the second question:
Yes its possible (and pretty easy). BUT you will have to open another session of VScode that will connect to the "workstation" through the server.
Currently, to connect to the server, you probably had to add these lines to your ssh config file:
Host MyServer
HostName adress.server
User username
To open a session in the workstation, through the server, you should add these lines:
Host MyWorkstation
HostName workstation.adress.within.network.of.the.server
User usernameInWorkstation
ProxyJump server.adress
I cannot ssh into Google compute engine instance. Here is scenario.
I tried to ssh into an instance from ubuntu ssh client, so generated a private & public key in my local and added pubkey to metadata.
But got Permission denied (publickey) error message and the instance console was saying No space left on device
I then increased the size of the instance by 100GB more and then restart the instance.
After few mins later, tried to ssh into the instance again and getting the Permission denied (publickey) error again and the console said No usable temporary directory found in ['/tmp', '/var/tmp', '/usr/tmp', '/']
Now I can't connect to the instance by any tool such as browser console, ssh client etc.
Is there any solution to address this problem?
Thanks in advance.
I faced the same problem during these days, and I solved it using winSCP to access the storage and delete a lot of heavy files created by my scripts, also because the the instructions here have been not so useful.
If you do not know how to configure winSCP and GCP, follow my steps or this video.
winSCP - Create Keys
While creating a new site in winSCP
go to advanced --> ssh --> Authentication
click on Tools and open the Putty gen
generate public and private key
save them
copy the public key and open GCP
Setting your GCP instance
Click on your instance to edit its settings
scroll down until you reach ssh keys
paste your key
save
Done, now you can access your instance storage and remove some files; after that, your instance will be able to boot correctly creating the temporary files needed.
As Dan mentioned, you need to connect on serial console to expand the filesystem making use of the additional disk space allocated. You can also attempt to free up some space etc.
A complete tutorial is linked:
https://youtu.be/HSBTnfDsVRs
In this video, I talked about how to SSH into GCP using Windows Terminal. There are three methods to do so:
Access via Chrome
Access via Command Prompt
Access via a custom Windows Terminal tab (best!!)
Process for Chrome:
Open Google Chrome
Type "https://console.cloud.google.com/"
And you can access it!!
Process for Installing Google Cloud SDK:
Install Google Cloud SDK (https://cloud.google.com/sdk/docs/downloads-interactive)
Click "Next"
Click "I Agree"
It's installed!!
Process for Command Prompt (via PuTTy):
Open Windows Terminal
Then, open Command Prompt
Type "gcloud cloud-shell ssh"
And you can access it!!
Process for a custom Windows Terminal tab:
Open Windows Terminal
Go to Settings and click "Open JSON file"
Then add the following:
{
"backgroundImage": "C:/Users/user/Downloads/Pictures/gcp.png",
"backgroundImageOpacity": 0.2,
"commandline": "wsl ~/ssh-gcloud-env.sh [email] [project_id]",
"hidden": false,
"icon": "C:/Users/user/Downloads/Pictures/gcp.png",
"name": "SSH into GCP"
},
Then, open your wsl2 Ubuntu VM, and in your /home/user/ directory make a file named "ssh-gcloud-env.sh". And type in the following commands:
gcloud auth login $1
gcloud config set project $2
gcloud cloud-shell ssh
Save the file and type the following: "chmod +x ssh-gcloud-env.sh"
Finally, go to your Windows Terminal and open the custom tab.
Yay! We did it
tasks:
name: Connect to Windows hpst machine through an ssh script
script : windows_connect.ssh
name: Run the bat file
script : C:\OV\sentenv.bat
name: To exit from the remote machine
shell: exit
This is what my playbook looks like.
Windows_connect.sh contains a script to connect to a windows machine via ssh.
ssh root#host
So ideally shouldnt ansible prompt me for a password?
Instead it gets stuck.
Please help me with the same
Ansible opens at least one new ssh connection for every task in the play.
So the idea to open a ssh connection with the first task and then reuse the connection in the later tasks will not work. Actually Ansible won't be able to execute the first task because the script module you are trying to use will already need a working connection to the remote host.
I have found little information on how many ssh connection Ansible will use to execute a task so I might be wrong here.
You should consult the Ansible documentation for Window support and implement a solution based on the winrm Python module.
I have set env.user and env.password,but when I use:
run('ssh-copy-id -i $HOME/.ssh/id_rsa.pub server1')
it still asks me for the password,why?
env.user and env.password are used to ssh to remote server and then run the command inside run () at the remote server.
They are not used for the remote command itself (running in the remote server).
So ssh-copy-id doesn't know anything about the user or password.
If this is not what you mean, I would advice you to edit the question and make things more clear, like providing more context of what you are trying to accomplish: pasting the function that contains this 'run' for example.
I have created a VB.NET program using windows forms. The program runs on a remote PC and displays information on a screen. The computer does not even have a mouse or keyboard connected to it. The program shows the information based on the file that is loaded.
I want to be able to change this file remotely to another file that is already on the remote PC. I can't use a graphical remote desktop client as we have very limited bandwidth.
So, my idea is to change the file using the command prompt (I think I'll need something like SSH). I'm not sure how to do this. Should I use something like this and load DosModule first:
Module DOSModule
Public Sub Main()
Console.Write("First, start with Command Prompt processing ...")
Dim myWinForm As New WinForm
Application.Run(myWinForm)
End Sub
End Module
How would I then read commands that is send to the program? I also only want one instance of the program running.
Thanks
You have 2 options. The first is a custom program that WILL require some network programming, like it or not. I would suggest creating either a Command-Line batch file or else a PowerShell script, then creating a program to transfer the script to the remote computer and execute the script.
The second option and the one better suited for you would be to download an SSH server. An SSH server will essentially open a command window and pipe the input and output over to a telnet client running on your machine. If you are running a version of Windows Server, an SSH server comes with Windows Server. Otherwise, you can download one for free here: http://www.freesshd.com/
Once you install the SSH server, you simply use telnet, from a command prompt, to link up with your remote SSH server