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By default, OpenSSH dumps log messages to /var/log/secure authentication log file. The need to log particular host or group of IP address to separate SSH log file is needed at times to further log SSH details for further record and monitoring. Create Separate SSH Log File for Particular SSH Client... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

The best way to put your newly jailbroken iPhone 2.0 to good use is to turn it into a cellphone modem for your laptop. When tapping out an email or pinching and swiping on the iPhone's web browser...

When you don't want to depend solely on the official App Store to get your iPhone 2.0 applications, you want to jailbreak your iPhone or iPod touch—and less than two weeks after the iPhone 2.0...

"Having had some time to play around with the FreeRunner's software (see my previous post), I can make a few more remarks about it now. read more

To my horror, I recently saw this online SSH key generator. I hope nobody reading this needs to be told why this is a bad idea. However, in case you do, here are a few reasons

Quick and easy shell script to help setup openssl, openssh and zlib, while creating new ssh host keys, network-wide using rsh.

Quick and easy shell script to help setup openssl, openssh and zlib, while creating new ssh host keys, network-wide using rsh.

Quick and easy shell script to help setup openssl, openssh and zlib, while creating new ssh host keys, network-wide using rsh.

Quick and easy shell script to help setup openssl, openssh and zlib, while creating new ssh host keys, network-wide using rsh.

This is a short HOWTO guide for users (or previous-users) of Debian, Ubuntu or related distributions on how to guard themselves against the very serious vulnerability in Debian's patch to OpenSSL affecting SSH, SSL and OpenVPN that was disclosed early last week. I know that many Drupal developers are Ubuntu users (though certainly second in number to the OS X users!) so I am adding this to the planet as a PSA!

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SSH is one of the most secure communication methods we have. It’s encrypted, and even the passwords can’t be sniffed. But it’s not invincible. Weak passwords can be brute forced and open ports invite automated bots looking for that open port 22. But there’s a number of ways we can harden our ssh server.

If you like to have ready-to-go access to remote machines (or a home server, perhaps) from your Linux desktop, you might have noticed that you can't always get what you want. Many home and office...

Linux only: SSHMenu, a free taskbar application, makes Linux life a little easier for those who regularly make one or more SSH connections to remote machines on a regular basis. Once you've added the...

Got more than one SSH connection you need to keep open in uber-helpful terminal app PuTTY? Want to keep multiple SSH windows open in one full-screen window? The free PuTTY Connection Manager app does...