Re: Distro suggestions :-)
- From: General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 8 Jan 2007 15:01:37 GMT
On Mon, 08 Jan 2007 05:46:56 -0800, sk8terg1rl wrote:
Hi General,
General Schvantzkoph wrote:
It could be the cable or the controller or some random noise, but what
happened to your drive was almost certainly a hardware problem not the
results of a break in.
Well, looks like you're right. After copying out stuff and reformatting
the HD over the weekend at home, when I brought it back into college
the comp it was originally in no longer recognises the drive in the
BIOS :-(
It was a 4 month old Seagate...looks like the acquisition of Maxtor
brought quality control problems to Seagate.
As for ssh security, you should always require RSA
authentication. It's virtually impossible for someone to guess a
public/private key pair. Passwords can't be nearly as secure. If you
require sufficiently long and arcane passwords to guarantee security you
end up making your own life difficult because you have to type in a hard
to remember password every time you want to log into the system. You can
carry your rsa keys on a flash key if you want to be able to access your
system from random outside boxes.
I'll read up on this. It might be the answer I'm looking for as I will
need to implement "no password ssh" on my computers at some point soon
when I start parallelising my code.
It's trivial to setup. I use webmin to administer my boxes, webmin has a
really nice ssh module. You can get webmin from http://www.webmin.com/. To
access it all you have to do is point your browser to
https://machinename:10000
.
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