Seahorse is a very powerful tool for the creation and managing of various keys. Seahorse is the default keyring manager for the GNOME desktop. I have covered Seahorse here on Ghacks before (see “Create, sign, and publish your PGP keys with Seahorse“), but one aspect I didn’t cover was the use of Seahorse for secure [...]

Categories: Linux, Open Source, Security, Tutorials Basic

If you’ve ever used secure shell you know that it can get a little daunting with all of the command options available. But did you know you can make this task much easier with the help of secure shell user configuration files? With these files (unique to each user) you can configure secure shell to [...]

Categories: Advice, Security

Being able to do remote administration is crucial to many system administrators. And there are plenty of tools available for this job. You can use command line tools and full-blown GUI tools. Of course many users prefer to do things as simply as possible. Fortunately Linux has the right tools to make such a task [...]

Categories: Advice, Desktop Manager, Linux, Networks, Open Source, Software, troubleshooting, Tutorials Basic

I work with secure shell all the time. Day in and day out I am administering personal machines and client machines with the help of ssh. After a while opening up a terminal window and entering the command to connect to all of these clients gets old. And we all know saving time and effort [...]

Categories: Advice, Desktop Manager, Linux, Networks, Open Source, Security, Tutorials Basic

I use secure shell a LOT, every day. So much so that I often take for granted how important this tool is. Not only does it allow me to log into remote machines to handle management of said machine, it can do other things as well – X tunneling being one of the most useful features. But [...]

Categories: Advice, Linux, Networks, Open Source, Security, Server, Tutorials Basic

In this Linux backup series we have taken a look at Flyback (“Quick and easy backups with Flyback“), Backerupper (“Simple gui backup tool Backerupper“), and Back In Time (“Linux Back In Time: Backup made easy“). But what Linux series would be complete without a command line entry? Not this one. There is one thing that [...]

Categories: Advice, Linux, Networks, Open Source, Server, Software, Tutorials Advanced, Tutorials Basic

If you spend enough time with Linux at some point you are going to want (or need) to log on to a remote machine. And logging on to a remote machine is something you want to do in a secure enviroment. To gain security when having to do any remote administration, your best bet is [...]

Categories: Advice, Linux, Open Source, Security, Tutorials Basic

I bought the T-Mobile G1 phone just a few days ago and have been playing around with the Android Market quite a bit. One of the applications that I discovered on Android Market was Connect Bot. Connect Bot is a SSH Client for the Android Phone which webmasters (and other users) can use to connect [...]

Categories: Google Android, Mobiles