I should of put something up sooner but here goes, for red nose day 2009 I am running the following ‘competition’ “Sysadmin for the day”.

The largest single donation will get my services in a technical aspect free for 24 hours, all proceeds go to red nose day (SO MAKE SURE YOU CHECK THAT GIFT AID BOX!).

This could be something along the lines of the following:

1. Server Setup
2. Solution Consultation
3. PHP & mySQL development
4. Flowplayer development / deployment / help
5. Technical support
6. Anything vaguely Linux/Mac/Windows related
7. Your own vid/screen cast tutorial

It’s not quite something “funny” I know, but I hope you can send a donation EVEN if it’s £1.

“In a nutshell, when you raise cash for Comic Relief, not only will you have a great time, you’ll also change someone’s life for good.

From helping a child growing up with domestic violence, a dad living with mental health problems or a lonely older person with dementia living down the road in the UK, to supporting orphans and desperately poor communities in Africa”

DONATE HERE https://www.myrednoseday.com/sysadminfortheday

The 2.1.0.0 release is due for the end of this month, you can follow it’s progress from the TRAC page here: https://OFFLINE/saiweb/milestone/wordpress-flowplayer%202.1.0.0

At the time of writing this intends to close 9 issues / feature requests.

If you have anything you want to see in the next release please leave a comment, or raise a ticket in the trac system.

Cheers

Buzz

Some users apparently do not know how to clear their Internet Explorer cache, so I have taken two minutes to do a screen cast here: https://screencast.com/t/FGDnc2gjcft

[FLOWPLAYER=https://content.screencast.com/users/D.Busby/folders/Jing/media/1bc86df6-fcb6-4f36-a369-5fa94b24ea24/00000107.mp4,400,325]

I should of really written about this ages ago.

SSH Keys allow you to log into a server without the need for passwords by providing a public, private keypair for authentication, you can of course choose to specify a password for the authentication for an added level of security (Allowing you to have one unified login for you servers).

For the general user I would suggest the use of a password for securing the key further, you can forgo this in the case of secured automated processes however. (i.e. server to server backup via scp).

From the client machine:

Generate the key

ssh-keygen -t rsa

Follow the prompts to enter your password (or just hit enter for no password).

Copy the key

You must now copy the key to the server you wish to log in to.

scp ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub target_user@target_server.com:~/.ssh/

Now log into the target server.

[target_user@target_server.com ~] cd ./.ssh/
[target_user@target_server.com .ssh] cat ./id_rsa.pub >> ./authorized_keys

Now exit the shell on the target server, and re-login.

ssh target_user@target_server.com

If you are prompted to enter a password this should be the password you entered when generating the key, if you did not specify a password you should now be logged into the target server without being prompted for a password.

This process works for both linux and MAC OSX, when generating keys as the client.

NOTE: If you regenerate the key for whatever reason this will replace the olde key pair, and you will need to go through the procedure of copying to the target server again.

Yup, lasers mounted on planes, not snakes on a plane, lasers.

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