Setup ssh key authentication for password-less login between servers. For use by ssh/sftp users or scripts. Source Server (or local system) Generate RSA key for user on this system, you can also use DSA. This asks for key pass-phrase but you can leave it blank. ssh-keygen -t rsa This asks for location to place the [...]
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. [...]
Tags: ssh·subversion·svn
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 [...]
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 [...]
