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Using svn+ssh with a non-standard ssh port

August 17th, 2009 · No Comments

Many people use subversion over ssh for a simple and secure way to work on remotely hosted svn repositories. This is normally as simple as running:
svn co svn+ssh://user@server/repo .
If the remote ssh server is not running on the default ssh port (tcp 22) then this needs a little tweaking to get it working. Normally I [...]

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Tags: CLI · HowTo · Tips and Tricks · sysadmin

Waiting for SSH login prompt

July 20th, 2009 · No Comments

Are you often waiting over 1 minute to get a ssh prompt? This can be caused by several things however more often then not is a missing PTR record for server address and enabled GSSAPIAuthentication in ssh_config. GSSAPIAuthentiction is Kerberos 5 centralized authentication/authorization mechanism that relies on resolving a hostname for proper operation, when it [...]

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Tags: Centos · HowTo · Security · sysadmin

What phone does a sys admin need?

January 27th, 2009 · No Comments

Recently we were discussing our favorite phones and gadgets. By now we use our phones as mobile terminals so when the question of upgrading came up we looked at the requirements we have from that perspective. The first requirement is an SSH client of course. Most smart phones do have an SSH client of sorts [...]

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Tags: Installation