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A easy way to run remote X programs (from another host) on your local linux installation is to connect to it via ssh using the -Y switch. For instance if you would like to run up2date in graphical mode on a remote machine but the server doesn’t have X installed. Then this is a great […]
This is an alternative way of limiting the SSH access to only SFTP explained in my How to restrict users to SFTP only instead of SSH post.Edit your /etc/sshd_config file and change your settings like thisMatch User usernameAllowTcpForwarding noX11Forwarding noForceCommand /usr/libexec/sftp-server -l INFO Replace username with the user name you would limit the SSH access […]
#!/bin/bash # Linux/UNIX box with ssh key based login SERVERS=”192.168.1.1 192.168.1.2 192.168.1.3″ # SSH User name USR=”jadmin” # Email SUBJECT=”Server user login report” EMAIL=”admin@somewhere.com” EMAILMESSAGE=”/tmp/emailmessage.txt” # create new file >$EMAILMESSAGE # connect each host and pull up user listing for host in $SERVERS do echo “——————————–” >>$EMAILMESSAGE echo “* HOST: $host ” >>$EMAILMESSAGE echo “——————————–” […]
This is a simple way to synchronize all the files from the current computer to a remote computer using SSH as transportation protocol. rsync -raz –progress –delete –bwlimit=4096 /synchronize/from/this-folder/ remote-server:/to/this-folder/ This example is using PUT as transfer method because the files are put from the local computer to the remote. Options explained -r synchronize directories […]
dd bs=1M if=/dev/hda | gzip | ssh user@remote ‘dd of=hda.gz’