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Connect Tractorscope to a database with an SSH tunnel

To setup a SSH tunnel, a public ssh key must be added to the machines users ~/.ssh/authorized_key file. Below is the public key to add.

# Please contact support@tractorscope.com to obtain the public key.

Then add the database to Tractorscope’s interface. The user name that the SSH key is installed for will need to be used in the SSH user input

Depending on the machines settings, you may need to add the following to enable RSA key authentication.

Edit

/etc/ssh/sshd_config

file and add the following:

# Adding for tractorscope rsa ssh key
PubkeyAcceptedAlgorithms +ssh-rsa

# Adding for tractorscope rsa ssh key
PubkeyAcceptedAlgorithms +ssh-rsa

After you have made that change, restart sshd with

systemctl restart sshd

You should be connecting through the SSH tunnel now.

FAQ

Use an SSH tunnel when the database is on a private network or is not directly reachable from Tractorscope.

Install the public key in the

~/.ssh/authorized_keys

file for the user account that will accept the SSH connection.

Use the username for the account where you installed the Tractorscope public key.

Some SSH servers reject RSA keys by default. Adding

PubkeyAcceptedAlgorithms +ssh-rsa

can allow the connection if your server requires that compatibility setting.