Okay, so this is maybe a little unusual, but today’s “*nix Tip of the Day” isn’t about Unix/Linux/etc. at all. Instead, it is about their antiquated archenemy: VMS. First, a little bit of history: <History> Way back in 1970, the PDP-11 was hot stuff. Ken Thompson, Dennis Richie, Brian Kernighan, and others at Bell Labs [...]
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*nix Tip of the Day: SSH SOCKS Proxying
Continuing on my theme of SSH tips, today’s Tip of the Day talks about the awesomeness of SOCKS proxying. As some of the more savvy among you may know, OpenSSH supports full Layer-2/Layer-3 VPN functionality using a tun device. This is an incredibly useful feature if you’re off-site and need like-local access to home, work, [...]
*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. [...]
*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 [...]
