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This post describes how you can configure your RedHat Enterprise WS 4 NFS system behind a iptables firewall to be available for clients outside the firewall on a permanent basis. Symptom NFS relies on portmap to assign the ports on which it will listen. One side effect of this is that the ports are randomly […]
This post describes how you use sftp in batch mode. If you don’t want to type in your password read my SSH without a password post.Create a file named myCommands.sftp that contains the commands you want to run. My file looks like this # Change to your desired directory locallylcd /data/Hattori# Change to the desired […]
The following steps can be used to ssh from one system to another without specifying a password. Notes: The system from which the ssh session is started via the ssh command is the client. The system that the ssh session connects to is the server. These steps seem to work on systems running OpenSSH. The […]
This is a simple iptables rule to allow ssh access to a specific MAC-address iptables -A INPUT -p tcp –destination-port 22 -m mac –mac-source XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX -j ACCEPT This is a nice rule to allow only your laptop ssh access on your servers no matter what IP-address you may have while you are on the road. […]
This is one way to determine the ports needed to open in your iptables rules to get NFS to work properly. First we need to determine the ports NFS uses rpcinfo -p | awk -F ” ” ‘{print $3 “, ” $4 “, ” $5}’ | sort | uniq Notice! Since portmap assigns ports on […]