Comments on: Linux Server Admin Tips http://www.earthinfo.org/administering-linux-servers/ Down to Earth Information Wed, 01 Feb 2012 05:35:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Ian http://www.earthinfo.org/administering-linux-servers/comment-page-1/#comment-12 Ian Sat, 09 May 2009 04:24:29 +0000 http://www.earthinfo.org/blog/?p=90#comment-12 "The colours really stop you making silly mistakes." The king of silly mistakes is shutting down the wrong machine. Check out molly-guard, if you're working with debian based distros. “The colours really stop you making silly mistakes.”

The king of silly mistakes is shutting down the wrong machine. Check out molly-guard, if you’re working with debian based distros.

]]> By: Ian http://www.earthinfo.org/administering-linux-servers/comment-page-1/#comment-11 Ian Sat, 09 May 2009 04:20:28 +0000 http://www.earthinfo.org/blog/?p=90#comment-11 Dude! "In my case I put all my machines SSH daemon on a non standard port (3366) for security, and I always log in as root." Um, yeah. Don't bother with the port thing - nmap will still find it - it only stops bad guys that are dumber than rocks. Don't login as root, really. Turn off the ability to login as root and require sudo. No passphrase? man ssh-agent. Dude!

“In my case I put all my machines SSH daemon on a non standard port (3366) for security, and I always log in as root.”

Um, yeah. Don’t bother with the port thing – nmap will still find it – it only stops bad guys that are dumber than rocks. Don’t login as root, really. Turn off the ability to login as root and require sudo. No passphrase? man ssh-agent.

]]> By: W http://www.earthinfo.org/administering-linux-servers/comment-page-1/#comment-3 W Sat, 25 Apr 2009 05:57:40 +0000 http://www.earthinfo.org/blog/?p=90#comment-3 Good list! Tip.3. I also use alliases to ssh commands, but I use little shorter forumla than yours. For example, instead of alias strawberry="ssh strawberry" I would have used alias sss="ssh strawberry", and simillarly, alias ssg="ssh grape" and alias ssb="ssh banana" :-). Of course it's a metter of preference:-) Also, I usually put -X to my ssh alliases to forward windows for server to desktop:-) Good list!
Tip.3. I also use alliases to ssh commands, but I use little shorter forumla than yours. For example, instead of
alias strawberry=”ssh strawberry”
I would have used alias sss=”ssh strawberry”, and simillarly,
alias ssg=”ssh grape” and alias ssb=”ssh banana” :-) . Of course it’s a metter of preference:-) Also, I usually put -X to my ssh alliases to forward windows for server to desktop:-)

]]> By: alifaan http://www.earthinfo.org/administering-linux-servers/comment-page-1/#comment-2 alifaan Fri, 24 Apr 2009 23:44:04 +0000 http://www.earthinfo.org/blog/?p=90#comment-2 small but nice and helpful tips, like it. small but nice and helpful tips, like it.

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