Is it even possible to use Navicat or MySQL workbench (or any other tool) to connect to an Amazon RDS via a jump box like a bastion host?
I can do this if I manually open an ssh tunnel in a terminal like so:
ssh -A <my_user>#<bastion_endpoint> -L 3306:<RDS_ENDPOINT>:3306
Then connect to localhost:3306 from the mysql tool, this works. It's important to know that on the bastion MFA is required to login.
I can't even connect to my bastion box from Navicat using the exact same credentials as I used in the terminal/command line. I get the error:
Access denied for 'none'. Authentication that can continue: keyboard-interactive (11)
So I went to the bastion box and removed keyboard-interactive from the authentication methods and it works. However, that obviously breaks the MFA I'm using so that's not an option.
Is there any other configuration I need to do on my bastion box in order to make this work, or is this simply not possible?
Turns out my sshd configuration was fine, however, I did go back and enable auto pushing with MFA.
Navicat
If auto push is disabled for MFA you need to select Password and Public Key (even though we're just using a public key here). In the password field it can be blank, if auto push is enabled, otherwise put the number of your selection you want to be notified here (thats right it's not a normal password, dumb I know). Then just use your normal private key and password for the private key and it should connect fine.
MySQL Workbench / Sequel Pro
You MUST have autopush or something similar to it in order to work with MFA. If I didn't have auto push enabled it would fail to connect. Again use Password and Public Key. The password to the instance is blank then its just the normal public key and password for you public key.
IntelliJ
This is nicer. It will work with prompting with the MFA choice if you don't have auto push enabled. Unlike the others you can select the Public Key option instead of Password and Public Key and it should connect and work fine.
- - - - - Errors With Rotating IPs - - - - -
Now unfortunately you will get the annoying "man-in-the-middle" scary error with ssh if you have a constant endpoint with rotating IPs under it (like I did). If that's the case ONLY IntelliJ offers a checkbox for ignore StrictHostSSHKeyChecking.
So to get around that ONLY for this specific endpoint you can make it be forced to ignore SSH Key Checking. To do that add the following entry to your ~/.ssh/config file:
# changing IPs
Host my-custom-host.com
StrictHostKeyChecking no
UserKnownHostsFile /dev/null
You can use as many wildcards in the Host section which is nice. So customize it to your needs. Now you won't be checking the ssh key but it's better than having to daily (or how often the IP gets rotated) delete the endpoint entry in ~/.ssh/known_hosts.
Hopefully this helps to save someone a lot of pain.
For a database course that I'm in, the professor has tasked us with setting up several VM MySQL servers and remote connections. I've found proper documentation to solve most of my problems, but I've pored over docs trying to find a solution to my latest issue.
I've set up an Ubuntu VM on the Google Cloud Compute Engine. I installed a MySQL server to this VM instance, and I need to log in remotely from my laptop. I've followed this documentation https://cloud.google.com/solutions/mysql-remote-access and this youtube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5qQDm3ciDg.
However, I still get an Unable to Connect to Server message when I test my connection. What could I be overlooking that will help me connect?
Thanks!
So, I slammed my head against a wall for long enough to realize that ssh will be an easier solution than a direct connection.
So, at least for my Windows machine, these are the steps I followed to make the connection:
Download the sql server (You don't need to add a user unless necessary, and you don't change the bind-address in the config file).
Use PuTTYgen to create a private public key pair. Export the private key as an openssh format (in the export options)
Click the edit button on your VM instance then scroll down to the SSH key section.
Paste the public key into the text box (be sure to change the last comment portion to a username on the Linus VM)
Use the SSH connection on MySQL Workbench. Use the external IP of your VM as the first (ssh) host name and localhost as the second (SQL) host name. Input all other info as it is asked for.
I've been running my Google Compute VM for literally 1 day, and I was hacked, by this IP: http://www.infobyip.com/ip-121.8.187.25.html
I'm trying to understand what I can do next (user connected via ssh, root password was changed), to avoid these types of attacks (and to understand more than what /var/log/auth.log is telling me) ?
I assume you deleted the instance already, right ? from Developers console.
As suggested, always use ssh rsa keys to connect to your instance, instead of passwords. Additionally, depending on where you want access from, you can only allow certain IPs through the firewall. Configuring the firewall along with iptables, gives you better security.
You may also want to take a look at sshguard. Sshguard will add iptables rules automatically when it detects a number of failed connection attempts.
Just to make sure, please change the default port 22 in /etc/ssh/sshd_config to something else.
After creating the instance, I can login using gcutil or ssh. I tried copy/paste from the ssh link listed at the bottom of the instance and get the same error message.
The permission denied error probably indicates that SSH private key authentication has failed. Assuming that you're using an image derived from the Debian or Centos images recommended by gcutil, it's likely one of the following:
You don't have any ssh keys loaded into your ssh keychain, and you haven't specified a private ssh key with the -i option.
None of your ssh keys match the entries in .ssh/authorized_keys for the account you're attempting to log in to.
You're attempting to log into an account that doesn't exist on the machine, or attempting to log in as root. (The default images disable direct root login – most ssh brute-force attacks are against root or other well-known accounts with weak passwords.)
How to determine what accounts and keys are on the instance:
There's a script that runs every minute on the standard Compute Engine Centos and Debian images which fetches the 'sshKeys' metadata entry from the metadata server, and creates accounts (with sudoers access) as necessary. This script expects entries of the form "account:\n" in the sshKeys metadata, and can put several entries into authorized_keys for a single account. (or create multiple accounts if desired)
In recent versions of the image, this script sends its output to the serial port via syslog, as well as to the local logs on the machine. You can read the last 1MB of serial port output via gcutil getserialportoutput, which can be handy when the machine isn't responding via SSH.
How gcutil ssh works:
gcutil ssh does the following:
Looks for a key in $HOME/.ssh/google_compute_engine, and calls ssh-keygen to create one if not present.
Checks the current contents of the project metadata entry for sshKeys for an entry that looks like ${USER}:$(cat $HOME/.ssh/google_compute_engine.pub)
If no such entry exists, adds that entry to the project metadata, and waits for up to 5 minutes for the metadata change to propagate and for the script inside the VM to notice the new entry and create the new account.
Once the new entry is in place, (or immediately, if the user:key was already present) gcutil ssh invokes ssh with a few command-line arguments to connect to the VM.
A few ways this could break down, and what you might be able to do to fix them:
If you've removed or modified the scripts that read sshKeys, the console and command line tool won't realize that modifying sshKeys doesn't work, and a lot of the automatic magic above can get broken.
If you're trying to use raw ssh, it may not find your .ssh/google_compute_engine key. You can fix this by using gcutil ssh, or by copying your ssh public key (ends in .pub) and adding to the sshKeys entry for the project or instance in the console. (You'll also need to put in a username, probably the same as your local-machine account name.)
If you've never used gcutil ssh, you probably don't have a .ssh/google_compute_engine.pub file. You can either use ssh-keygen to create a new SSH public/private keypair and add it to sshKeys, as above, or use gcutil ssh to create them and manage sshKeys.
If you're mostly using the console, it's possible that the account name in the sshKeys entry doesn't match your local username, you may need to supply the -l argument to SSH.
Ensure that the permissions on your home directory and on the home directory of the user on the host you're connecting to are set to 700 ( owning user rwx only to prevent others seeing the .ssh subdirectory ).
Then ensure that the ~/.ssh directory is also 700 ( user rwx ) and that the authorized_keys is 600 ( user rw ) .
Private keys in your ~/.ssh directory should be 600 or 400 ( user rw or user r )
I was facing this issue for long time. Finally it was issue of ssh-add. Git ssh credentials were not taken into consideration.
Check following command might work for you:
ssh-add
I had the same problem and for some reason The sshKeys was not syncing up with my user on the instance.
I created another user by adding --ssh_user=anotheruser to gcutil command.
The gcutil looked like this
gcutil --service_version="v1" --project="project" --ssh_user=anotheruser ssh --zone="us-central1-a" "inst1"
I just experienced a similar message [ mine was "Permission denied (publickey)"] after connecting to a compute engine VM which I just created. After reading this post, I decided to try it again.
That time it worked. So i see 3 possible reasons for it working the second time,
connecting the second time resolves the problem (after the ssh key was created the first time), or
perhaps trying to connect to a compute engine immediately after it was created could also cause a problem which resolves itself after a while, or
merely reading this post resolves the problem
I suspect the last is unlikely :)
I found this error while connecting ec2 instance with ssh.
and it comes if i write wrong user name.
eg. for ubuntu I need to use ubuntu as user name
and for others I need to use ec2-user.
You haven't accepted an answer, so here's what worked for me in PuTTY:
Without allowing username changes, i got this question's subject as error on the gateway machine.
You need to follow this instructions
https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/connecting-to-instance#generatesshkeypair
If get "Permission denied (publickey)." with the follow command
ssh -i ~/.ssh/my-ssh-key [USERNAME]#[IP_ADDRESS]
you need to modify the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file and add the line
AllowUsers [USERNAME]
Then restart the ssh service with
service ssh restart
if you get the message "Could not load host key: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key" execute:
ssh-keygen -A
and finally restart the ssh service again.
service ssh restart
I followed everything from here:
https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/connecting-to-instance#generatesshkeypair
But still there was an error and SSH keys in my instance metadata wasn't getting recognized.
Solution: Check if your ssh key has any new-line. When I copied my public key using cat, it added into-lines into the key, thus breaking the key. Had to manually check any line-breaks and correct it.
The trick here is to use the -C (comment) parameter to specify your GCE userid. It looks like Google introduced this change last in 2018.
If the Google user who owns the GCE instance is myname#gmail.com (which you will use as your login userid), then generate the key pair with (for example)
ssh-keygen -b521 -t ecdsa -C myname -f mykeypair
When you paste mykeypair.pub into the instance's public key list, you should see "myname" appear as the userid of the key.
Setting this up will let you use ssh, scp, etc from your command line.
Add ssh public key to Google cloud
cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
go and click your VM instances
edit VM instances
add ssh public key(from id_rsa.pub) in SSH keys area
ssh login from Git bash on your computer
ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa tiennt#x.y.z.120
Suppose Mysql -dbs and an admin with a bad habbit to forget the passwords (or paranoid enough wanting more creative authentication, not just password). Is it possible to access Mysql -root shell for example in a way that the Ssh-agent stores the private keys and then I could just login by "mysql -u root" (without typing the passwords or a combination of private-key and a password)?
You can certainly use the normal SSH key authentication to log on to your shell account and then use a ~/.my.cnf file with your password inside. This will be used by default by the mysql command line client.
Its content should be:
[client]
user=the_user_name
password=the_password
Beware that whoever can read this file will be able to use those credentials. Protect it so that only the owner can read it (and lock your terminal if you go away from your keyboard).
If you want direct key-based authentication, you could also use SSL client-certificate authentication. You could create your own small CA and issue yourself with these client-certificates. A number of tools support this if you require direct remote access.