[gentoo-user] SSH question - ssh login - order by pertinence

VNC server on Login Screen?

Hi folks, I'm running Ubuntu 10.10 on an older than dirt Dell B110. Not that it matters, but I'm running 10.10 because this machine is fairly slow. At any rate, I'm trying to get VNC running so that I or any other account can see the login screen ...

Message posted on the October 30th, 2011 - 8:39 PM ET

[gentoo-user] after update ssh with shared_keys don't work

Hi people! I updated yesterday my gentoo box. And now I can't login with SSH through shared keys on my clients Server what I did all the time. When I made the "world" update, there was the package "udev". I guess it might have ...

Message posted on the November 15th, 2010 - 12:10 PM ET

Tool to record ssh cracking attempts

I'm looking for a tool, which hangs off ssh, to pick up ip addresses attempting brute force login attempts, and adds them to a hosts.deny file. I'm pretty sure such a thing exists, but can't locate it. Anyone got any useful pointers, please? Tony ...

Message posted on the September 16th, 2010 - 4:54 AM ET

How to keep alive ssh connection

I quit often login to my remote slackware box using ssh. However, I found, the connection can be automatically disconnected if I stay some time with no actitivities. I don't know how this happened at all. Do you have hint and show me a solution to ...

Message posted on the September 14th, 2010 - 12:29 PM ET

[gentoo-user] creating ssh account without directory browsing

Hi people! For a project I need to create ssh accounts (based on shared keys) who would be loged in a specific directory. They should only be able to login in the desired directory, but not be able for outside browsing. for example: /work/ but ...

Message posted on the August 22nd, 2010 - 4:40 AM ET

Login from Windows box?

Hi, is there some way to access a Linux box DESKTOP (GUI!) from Windows without anyone being logged in to linux? After several years of working only with windows I've just installed debian 5.0 on my other laptop and tried to connect via VNC. ...

Message posted on the March 1st, 2009 - 5:13 PM ET

[Samba] Samba (CentOS) + Windows 7 Ultimate 64 = no login

Hi, I am trying to setup a CentOS staging server as part of my development/testing setup. CentOS is working fine and I'm able to connect via SSH and HTTP without isssue. I want directly edit code on the CentOS server from my main tower running ...

Message posted on the September 6th, 2011 - 12:30 PM ET

Bug#664596: User seems to missing ability to login via, ssh/console after some days

This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) I have to change my pwd first to update the expiration date after your fix: root@tjener:~# kadmin.local -q "modpol -maxlife 0secs users" Authenticating as principal ...

Message posted on the March 25th, 2012 - 6:40 AM ET

The Pandaboard has arrived

# uname -a Linux localhost 3.2.14 #2 SMP PREEMPT Tue Sep 11 11:41:23 EST 2012 armv7l ARMv7 Processor rev 3 (v7l) OMAP4 Panda board GNU/Linux It's up and running and currently building the graphics drivers and all their dependencies. It's pretty ...

Message posted on the September 11th, 2012 - 7:26 AM ET

Re: Re: Sending a simple mail from debian slug

Well, I have not applied the option to shutdown the slug with the power button, so I just unplug the power. Ouch! Don't shut down systems by yanking the power. -blush- I just didn't know or look for the command "sudo shutdown -h ...

Message posted on the December 16th, 2012 - 12:40 PM ET

IpTables Displays Ultra Slow

I have some firewall rules set up. When I do "iptables -L" it starts to display the rules but after the first 3 lines stops and before every rule it waits a little bit. about 10-15 secs. When I have Iptables on the server, the ssh login ...

Message posted on the November 16th, 2012 - 5:30 AM ET

Linux, what to 'expect'

Here's an old tool I found while perusing "Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment": http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3065 Oct 01, 1998 By Vinnie Saladino Automating Tasks with EXPECT To make a long story short, EXPECT is a ...

Message posted on the January 19th, 2012 - 6:43 AM ET

[Samba] Cannot authenticate new ldap users (unless they are in /etc/passwd too)

Hi, I migrated a PDC to use an ldap backend and am having fun with a few last issues.. Existing user accounts and machine accounts were migrated, and existing users can authenticate. Now I've added some new users and none of them can authenticate. ...

Message posted on the May 23rd, 2011 - 5:50 PM ET

Blocking attacks from spoofed IP addresses

Some clown (on my subnet, I would guess) thinks he's exceedingly clever and is sending repeated SSH login attempts to my machine using spoofed IP addresses (making the consolidated attack appear to be coming from all over the world). I'm ...

Message posted on the September 30th, 2009 - 8:41 PM ET