I’ve mentioned sudo in these tips before. It’s a neat little utility for executing commands as somebody else. Well, today I bring you a handy guide I found on using sudo. I already knew most of the stuff, but some of it was new, and it looks pretty good as a starter for new users. [...]
Archive of posts tagged security
Debian OpenSSL
Sorry readers, no *nix Tip of the Day today. Just a brief word about the recent Debian OpenSSL vulnerability.
I’m sure you’ve heard about Debian’s OpenSSL “Disaster”. The short of it is that while fixing a questionable line in the OpenSSL/OpenSSH key generator, the Debian maintainer accidentally removed most of its entropy generation ability. Debian users [...]
*nix Tip of the Day: SSH Agent Forwarding
Today’s *nix tip of the day involves SSH and the magic that is Agent Forwarding.
SSH, as some of you know, is a handy way to connect to *nix systems in an untrusted environment. Its primary use is to allow one to remotely access a remote system and get a shell, securely. Basically, encrypted telnet. Of [...]
*nix Tip of the Day: SSH Private/Public Keys
Hello kind readers, and welcome to by *nix Tip of the Day. It’s finals week, and I’m sort of slacking, so I thought I’d post some of my accumulated folk wisdom on the Internet, so that it might help others.
Today’s topic is SSH Private/Public Keys. If any of you are CS majors, or go to [...]
