SSH
ssh, scp, sftp and vnc are frequently used tools (both servers and clients) on Linux. We may want to remote control a Linux box from Windows such as when we make ... read more »
Git server throught SSH is easy and fast to set up, although every user will have accesses to all repositories in the git server and every user is administrator. This ... read more »
We can set up a socks proxy on top of a SSH tunnel. Besides the common proxy functions, such as web browsing, the proxy on top of SSH tunnel also ... read more »
This post is a tutorial for new users to set up git and clone and use the first repository. This post introduces how to start using git for new users. ... read more »
Solutions to git server construction and management are summarised in this post. The post is keeping updating while new solutions is added to this site.
Set up git server
Setting Up Git ... read more »
Automatic passwrod-less ssh login can make our life easier. To enable this, we need to copy our SSH public keys to the remote machines for automatic password-less login. We introduce ... read more »
Port forwarding (or tunnelling) is a method to forward one network traffic to another. We will introduce how to forward ports using SSH tunnel in this post.
A simple example
Let’s start ... read more »
LVM’s snapshot feature enables us to duplicate an LVM backed Xen DomU in seconds inside of the same volume group. When we want to duplicate LVM backed Xen DomU from ... read more »
We can use sshfs to mount remote folder through SSH tunnel securely over network.
Install sshfs
$ sudo yum install sshfs
Mount folder on sever to local folder
sshfs username@server:/path/to/folder /path/to/mount/point
Unmount it
$ fusermount -u ... read more »
Sometimes we need to have the GUI of some application on the remote server. ssh’s X11 forwarding with “-X” parameter is a good and fast method. But if we want ... read more »