SSH Password-less login

 Posted on August 12, 2006  (Last modified on January 22, 2011)  |  2 minutes  |  273 words  |  

First generate a public key 1.rrs@geeKISSexy:~$ ssh-keygen -t dsa 2.Generating public/private dsa key pair. 3.Enter file in which to save the key (/home/rrs/.ssh/id_dsa): 4.Created directory '/home/rrs/.ssh'. 5.Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase): 6.Enter same passphrase again: 7.Your identification has been saved in /home/rrs/.ssh/id_dsa. 8.Your public key has been saved in /home/rrs/.ssh/id_dsa.pub. Enter the command "ssh-keygen -t dsa" (line 1.). When prompted on file where key is saved just hit "Enter" (line 3. [Read More]

Bye Bye Bootsplash

 Posted on July 13, 2006  (Last modified on January 22, 2011)  |  1 minutes  |  64 words  |  

Wow!

This is called freedom. **Bootsplash **has been a great eye-candy application in the Linux arena but now it’s time to say goodbye.

I just tried splashy and its a charm. The great thing is that it doesn ’t need a patched kernel. So newbies or people who don’t prefer to rollout their own kernel can use splashy and have a clean boot up.

pypt-offline 0.6.Beta Released

 Posted on July 9, 2006  (Last modified on January 22, 2011)  |  6 minutes  |  1110 words  |  

I’m happy that a new release has been possible. This new release is almost a complete re-write and has many fixes and features. For details, visit: http://pypt-offline.sf.net There’s also a small HOWTO about pypt-offline Cheers! Ritesh pypt-offline – An Offline Package Manager (C) 2005, 2006 Ritesh Raj Sarraf rrs@researchut.com INTRODUCTION So you’ve decided to give this small piece of work a try. Good ! Let’s get it done faster. pypt-offline is an offline package management tool written in the Python Programming Language. [Read More]

Software Suspend 2 with root/swap on LVM

 Posted on July 7, 2006  (Last modified on January 22, 2011)  |  3 minutes  |  635 words  |  

Disclaimer: YMMV I had always had failures with Software Suspend 2 (swsusp2) on my laptop because of which I had a perception that it really wasn’t ready for use for beta users also. But recently after reading the comments of many users on LWN I felt how wrong I actuall was. Anyways, setting up swsusp2 with root/swap on LVM is a little tricky. From my past experience I’ve felt that to be the major reason for me to not able to use this excellent feature. [Read More]

Pivot at its best

 Posted on May 2, 2006  (Last modified on January 22, 2011)  |  1 minutes  |  42 words  |  

It really is amazing to see no more spam coming to my blog. Kudos to the Pivot team who’ve done a great job integrating spam features into this great software. Also the spam cleanup utility (integrated into the application) is excellent. Thanks.

Customizing Gallery ver 1

 Posted on December 4, 2005  (Last modified on January 22, 2011)  |  1 minutes  |  33 words  |  

Customizing Gallery ver 1 is as simple as adding your HTML code into respective wrapper.header.html and wrapper.footer.html files at the end, after all the PHP code, in the html_wrap directory.

Simple, Isn’t it!

New SSH Session in Konsole

 Posted on October 2, 2005  (Last modified on January 22, 2011)  |  2 minutes  |  355 words  |  

Some quick steps to create an Option for “New SSH Session” under Konsole which includes keychain and ssh-agent for password-less ssh logins. I’m using a Debian system but majority of the steps should be common across all distributions. Install keychain and openssl-client programs (ssh-agent is part of openssl- client package under Debian) rrs@laptop:~ $ apt-get install keychain openssl-client Add the following lines to your .bashrc file For SSH For now I’m gambling the linux session for ssh-agent. [Read More]

POP3 SSL && Fetchmail

 Posted on October 2, 2005  (Last modified on January 22, 2011)  |  3 minutes  |  592 words  |  

Small HOWTO on configuring POP3 SSL with Fetchmail. Here I assume that the server’s SSL certificate is a Self Signed Certificate openssl s_client -connect mail.logicalwebhost.com:995 -showcerts Execute this command to fetch the details of the server and also the certificate. The output will be something like below: rrs@laptop:~ $ openssl s_client -connect mail.someserver.com:995 -showcerts CONNECTED depth=0 /C=US/ST=CA/L=San Jose/O=Some Internet Hosting Services/OU =Automatically-generated POP3 SSL key/CN=mail.somehost.com/emailAddress=postmaster@researchut.com verify error:num=18:self signed certificate verify return:1 [Read More]