Tag: ssh
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Mbuffer Trickery
Am rather disappointed that mbuffer isn’t shipped in CentOS 7. Easy enough to install, but seriously useful to have updated software in this day in age. Anyhow, to use mbuffer for a long transfer where an outgoing connection was the only option, I finally found a situation where I wanted to use a fifo. dmzhost$…
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Checking for your ssh-agent on login – updated
The first thing my .bash_aliases file does on login is to check if I’m running ssh-agent and if so, stick that into my shell environment. If not, kick it up, and update a reminder to it. This morning I found a flaw in that, so I believe this is the fix. 4 export SSH_RECENT=”$HOME/.ssh/recent” 5…
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Return of the 007 SSH Agent
Years ago when I first stared listening to podcasts when I had barely worked at PRWeb for a year even, I came up with a piece of shell script to automatically start up an ssh-agent and ask for your passphrase. Unfortunately, the code created tons of ssh-agents, which was unfortunate. Here is a version that…
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OpenSSH Public Key Authentication
This looks like a good guide on using ssh-keygen, the authorized_keys file, and using ssh-agent. OpenSSH Public Key Authentication.
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