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Byobu

Byobu is a light, powerful, text-based window manager based on GNU Screen. Using Byobu, you can quickly create and move between different windows over a single SSH connection or TTY terminal, monitor dozens of important statistics about your system, detach and reattach to sessions later while your programs continue to run in the background. Byobu can […]

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SSH Server and Windows 7 w/ Cygwin

In order to install openssh server correctly for Windows 7, you will need to do the following: Install Cygwin in the normal way. Make sure you’ve got openssh and cygrunsrv as selected packages to install. Right-click the Cygwin shell icon, and Run as administrator. Run ssh-host-config. Follow the prompts carefully: if needed, it will tell you which permissions you need to […]

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Automate your SSH Login using PuTTY

Truth:  day-to-day tasks suck To automate SSH login, do the following: 1. Run PuTTYgen. 2. Select SSH-2 DSA as the Type of Key to generate. 3. Click generate and move your mouse around to generate randomness. 4. Click “Save Private Key” and save it somewhere on your computer. 5. Copy the entire content inside the […]

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ESXi 4 – Tech Support Mode

Tech Support Mode (TSM) provides a command-line interface that can be used by the administrator to troubleshoot and correct abnormal conditions on VMware ESXi hosts. TSM can be accessed in two ways: Logging in directly on the console of the ESXi server Logging in remotely via SSH Both of these methods can be disabled, and […]

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Tunneling Firefox traffic over SSH

Paranoia, Security or Privacy Issues; All are reasons why I tunnel my web traffic though a SSH Tunnel via a remote machine.  In most cases I do this because I do not trust the network I’m on and don’t want to send unencrypted traffic through it.  In some cases firewalls or local network DNS prevent […]

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Enable ssh and ssh root access on Vyatta

Requirements Root account enabled Enable SSH / SSH root access To access the shell from a remote pc, with for example, the program “putty”. Commands vyatta@vyatta# set service ssh vyatta@vyatta# set service ssh allow-root vyatta@vyatta# commit vyatta@vyatta# save